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VARIOUS FAMILIES OF 
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(1620 - 1904) 



By NEWTON POWERS TOMKINSON. 



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DEDICATION 

To the Tomkinsons of the past, present, and future, 
these records are dedicated. 



PREFACE. 



The present work is the outcome of a long-standingf belief, 
that it is a duty we owe our posterity to preserve information and 
facts of a genealogical nature; and a desire (which has become 
almost a passion in me), therefore, to place before my "kith and 
kin" and their descendants some facts concerning our progenitors 
and themselves, has stimulated me in the preparation of the fol- 
lowing pages, which, however replete they may seem to an un- 
practiced eye, have fallen very short of my own idea of perfection 
in such matters. Indeed, I cannot but reflect that the execution 
of my original idea has been both lame and superficial; and I feel, 
by experience, how unequal my ability is, without the necessary 
assistance of others, to complete, in the manner I could wish, so 
extensive and arduous a task. 

I regret that certain portions of the original plan of this work 
had to be expunged just before the following pages went to print, 
owing to the aggregate expense ($203) of the printing which their 
appearance herein would have occasioned. I refer to several inter- 
esting articles : "Consanguinity," "The Seventeenth Century," "The 
Eighteenth Century" (the two last mentioned of which, being sum- 
maries of historical events, were intended to give the reader some 
idea of the times in which our early ancestors lived, and of the 
persons who were their contemporaries), beside a cluster of mem- 
orable occurrences which were originally introduced in connection 
with the nativity of each person herein. 

Genealogical works infrequently recompense those who attempt 
them, are rarely appreciated, and seldom prepared, except bv some 
interested person, as "a labor of love." I have given no incon- 
siderable quantity of time, labor, and money to promote this scheme. 
I have assumed the entire expense of gathering the information 
contained in these records. This I do not regret. Mv chief recom- 
pense is in the pleasure the preparation of this work has afforded 
me, and in the thought that there will be some substantial record 
of our family preserved for future generations, and that it may 
prove to be a matter of enjoyment and entertainment for those 
who are honestly interested in such things. 

With a view to obtaining necessary information about the 
descendants of the original Tomkinson, and without invading their 
rights to privacy, carefully prepared questions were sent out to 
all known members of the various families bearing that name in 
the United States and in England. 

It will be noticed that the records of some appear to be lean 
and meagre when compared with those of others. This is due 
to either indifference on the part of the respective persons about 
furnishing possible information or to a positive lack of data. 



In a work of this character, covering a period of two hundred 
and eighty-four years, and embracing facts of pedigree and 
sketches of over eight hundretl persons, inchiding alHances, doubt- 
less errors will appear; yet, considering the lack of interest mani- 
fested in the matter and the scarcity of material, the whole is as full and 
attractive as possible under these unfortunate circumstances. There- 
fore, in anticipation of the reprinting of this work and the ultimate 
incorporation of its substance in a general history of the family, the 
reader is earnestly requested to supply omissions and to commu- 
nicate any corrections or additions that he or she may be able to 
contribute, in order to make the records as complete as possible. 
Members of the Tomkinson families are particularly requested to 
give such facts as are within their knowledge. 

I have inserted in the back of the record of each family blank 
pages for the purpose of the registration of future births, mar- 
riages and deaths. It is of the most vital importance that the 
record of each family be faithfully and religiously kept, in order 
that the whole may be placed in an accessible form for the research 
of future Tomkinsons. 

My task is over. To those who have rendered me assistance 
and have been in svmpathy with my endeavors to perfect this com- 
mendable idea, I wish to extend my sincere thanks. 

NEWTON POWERS TOMKINSON. 
Philadelphia, November i, 1904. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

Dedication ...... ^ 

Preface - - - - - - " - 5 

Abbreviations and Contractions - - - - - 9 

Origin of the Name - - - - - - 11 

Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Tomkinson — Born Circa 

1620 - - - - - - - 15 

Key to the Genealogy of Thomas Tomkinson - - 16 

Notes from the Cheshire Directory - - - - 21 

Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Tomkinson — Born - 27 

Genealogy of the Family of John Tomkinson — Born 1758 - 33 
Genealogy of the Family of John Tomkinson — Born Circa 

1771 .---.- - 59 
Genealogy of the Family of Jeremiah Tomkinson — Born Prev- 
ious to 1773 . - - - . . 67 
Genealogy of the Family of Joseph Tomkinson — Born Previous 

to 1779 - - - - - - - 75 

Genealogy of the Family of Joseph Tomkinson — Born Previous 

to 1798 - - - - - - - 107 

Notes and Clues of Other Tomkinsons - - - 117 

Index - - - - - - - - 121 



ABBREVIATIONS AND CONTRACTIONS. 



A. D. (Latin, anno Domini), the 
year of our Lord. 

Apl., April. 

arg. , argent — silver, white; de- 
picted by the shield being 
plain. [Used in heraldry.] 

Aug., August. 

az., azure — blue ; depicted by 
horizontal lines. [Used in her- 
aldry.] 

b., born. 

Bart., baronet. 

Berks., Berkshire. 

brv.-col., brevet-colonel. 

B. S. C, Bengal Staff Corps ( ?). 
Capt., captain. 

C. B., Companion of the Bath, 
circa, around ; about. 

Col., colonel, 
cor., corner, 
d., died. 
<!au., daughter. 

D. D. (Latin, divinitatus doc 
tor). Doctor of Divinity. 

Dec, December. 
Del., Delaware, 
div., division. 

D. L.. Deputy Lieutenant (?). 
Dr., doctor. 

ds., days. 

d. s. p., died sine prole — with- 
out issue. 

Eng., England. 

erm., ermine — one of the furs 
represented by black spots of 
a particular shape on a white 
field. [Used in heraldry.] 

E. S., east side. 
Esq., esquire. 
Feby., Eebruary. 
Fri., Friday. 
Ga.. Georgia. 

G. C. M. G., Knight Grand 
Cross of St. Michael and St. 
George. 



Gen., general, 
gen., generation, 
gu., gules — red ; depicted by 
perpendicular lines. [Used 
in heraldry.] 

Herts., Hertfordshire. 

Hon., honorable. 

111., Illinois. 
Jan.. January. 

J. P., Justice of the Peace. 

K. C. M. G., Knight Command- 
er of St. Michael and St. 
George. 
Kty. , Kentucky. 

Lieut. -Col., Lieutenant-Colonel. 

m., married. 

M. A., Master of Arts. 

Mass., Massachusetts. 

Mch., March. 

Md., Maryland. 

M. D. (Latin, medicinse doctor), 
Doctor of Medicine. 

M. E., Methodist Episcopal. 

Mich., Michigan. 

Mon., Monday. 

mos., months. 

M. P., Methodist Protestant; 
member of Parliament. 

Mt., Mount. 

N. G. P., National Guards of 
Pennsylvania. 

N. J., New Jersey. 

n. n., new number. 

No., number. 

Nov., November. 

N. Y., New York. 

C, Ohio. 

Oct., October. 

o. n., old number. 

or., gold — depicted in uncolored 
drawings and engravings by 
dots or points. [Used in her- 
aldry.] 

p., page. 

Pa., Penna., Pennsylvania. 



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Philada., Philadelphia. 

P. M. (Latin, post meridiem), 
afternoon. 

P. O., post-office. 

Prest., president. 

Regt., regiment. 

Rev., reverend. 

sa., sable — black ; depicted by 
cross lines horizontal and per- 
pendicular. [Used in herald- 

r.v.] 
Sat., Saturday. 
Sept., September. 



Sun., Sunday. 

Tenn., Tennessee. 

Thurs., Thursday. 

Tues., Tuesday. 

U. P., United Presbyterian. 

U. S. A., United States of Am- 
erica. 

U. S. v.. United States Volun- 
teers. 

Va., Virginia. 

Vols., volunteers. 

Wed., Wednesday. 

yrs., years. 



ORIGIN OF THE NAME. 



"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, 
By any other name would smell as sweet." 

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act. ii, Sc. 2. 

"Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, 
The power of grace, the magic of a name?" 

Campbell: PI. of Hope, Pt. ii, Line 5. 



"A name! If the party had a voice. 
What mortal would be a Bugg by choice.' 



-Hood. 



The name of Tomkinson is a patronymic, and was doubtlessly 
derived from the Christian name Thomas. 

Charles Wareing Bardsley, M. A., in his valuable work, "Eng- 
lish Surnames" (p. g), says: "Nothing could be more natural 
than that children should often pass current in the community in 
which they lived as the sons of 'Thomas', or 'William', or 'Richard', 
or 'John' ; and that these several relationships should be found in our 
directories as distinct sobriquets only shows that there was a par- 
ticular generation in these families in which this title became per- 
manent, and passed on to future descendants as an hereditary sur- 
name." 

In another part (p. 15) of the same treatise, we learn that "In 
early days the four diminutives in use were those of 'kin', 'cock', 
and the terminations of 'ot' or 'et', and 'on' or 'en'; the two latter 
being of Norman-French origin." 

"i. Kin. The Saxon term, corresponding with the German 
'chen', and the French 'on' or 'en', referred to above, and intro- 
duced, most probably, so far as the immediate practice was con- 
cerned, by the Flemings, we still preserve in such works as 'mani- 
kin', 'pipkin', 'lambkin', or 'doitkin' * * * *" 

"Hence we have derived such surnames as 'Simpkins', and 
'Simpkinson', 'Thompkins' and 'Tomkinson'. 

Also (p. 93) : 

" 'Called Canton his knave 
Curteis of speche 
And also Tomme Trewe-tonge'. 

"Thus we see that 'Tom', as the popular form of 'Thomas', 
has been in vogue for many centuries. 'Thomas', like some of the 
above names, received an increased impulse from the Crusades. But 



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anothcrcircumstancealso befriended it. In its numerous progeny may 
be read again the story of the feud that arose between the haughty 
archbishop and Ilenry II, a feud that terminated so fatally for the 
former, and made the spot where he fell hallowed for centuries by 
the pilgrimages of shrine-worshippers. Piers, in Langdon's poem, 
says: 

'I nolde fange a fcrthyng 

For seint Thomas shryne'. 

"The surnames whose origin we must undoubtedly attribute, 
in the majority of cases, to the notoriety given to the sobriquet 
possessed by the murdered prelate are many. The patronymic is 
clearly marked in our 'Thomasons', 'Thomsons', and 'Thompsons'. 
The favored Norman diminutive is equally assured of perpetration 
in our 'Thomasetts', 'Thomsetts', and 'Thompsetts' ; the Saxon be- 
ing as fully popularized in our 'Thompkins', 'Tompkins', 'Tom- 
kins', and 'Tomkinsons'. The softer termination is also firmly 
Bettled in our "Thomlins", 'Tomlins', and 'Tomlinsons' ." [See note.] 

"More abbreviated patronymics are to be met with also in our 
'Thomms', 'Thorns', and 'Toms'. With so many representatives 
in the list of rational beings, we need not be surprised to find the 
lower order of creation under obligation to this title. It was with 
the death of St. Thomas of Canterbury, and the consequent popu- 
larity of his name arose so many sobriquets of which the same 
name became the component part. The cat became a 'tom-cat', a 
simple-natured man a 'torn-coney', a silly fellow a 'tom-noddy' or 
'tom-fool', a romping girl a 'tom-boy' and a wren a 'tom-tit'." 

.■\nd again. ^lark Anthony Lower, in "Patronymica Britannica" 
(p. 342), says: 

"Though not used here prior to the Norman conquest, this (the 
author referring to the Christian name Thomas) has become one 
of the commonest of baptismal appellatives and surnames. It has 
also been a most abundant source of derivatives and nicknames 
represented by Thomason, Thomcrson, Thomson, Thompson, Tomp- 
?on, Thom, Thoms, Toms, Thomaset, Thomsett, Tomset, Tomp- 
sett, Tomkin, Tompkins, Tomkinson, Thomjjkisson, Thomlin, Tom- 
lin, Tomlins, Thomlinson, Tomlinson. In the north, A commonly 
represents O, and hence Thampsett, Tampsett, Tamlyn, Tamplin, 
and probably Taplin." 

Turning to the title "MacCartain, Chief of Kinealarty, County 
Down, Ireland" in \'ol. i of "Irish Pedigrees" by John O'Hart, we 
find the followinsj information : 



Note. — "The romance form, 'Thomasine', existed till recent 
days, and was at the zenith of its popularity in Elizabeth's reign. 
It was found in every register of that period. It is found as 
'Thomasing' in Worksworth Ch. (Derbyshire) : 'Thomasing. filia 
William .Sympson, buried Jan. 31, 1640.' " [See p. 93 of Bardsley's 
English Surnames.] 



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"Tomhas : ('tomhais': Irish, to measure) : his son: a quo Mac- 
Tomhais and MacTamais, anglicised Thomas, Thorn, Toms, Mac- 
Thomas, Tomson, Thomson, Thompson, Tomkins and Tomkinson." 

Still another authority, Charlotte Yonge, in her "History of 
Christian Names" (p. 22), says: 

"Thomas is the accepted equivalent for the Irish Tomalhaid, 
Tonialtash, and Toirdelvach, tall as a tower." 

In "Derivation of Family Names," by William Arthur, M. A., 
we learn (p. 247) the following: 

"Thomas, (Heb). A twin. 

"Thomlin, and Thomlinson. From Thorn and Thoms, and ing 
or ling, a child or descendant — son of Thomas. 

"Thoms. An abbreviation of Thomas; Tom, local, Gaelic and 
Welsh, a round hillock or knoll, a rising ground or eminence, any 
round heap, a tumulus." 

"Thomson. The sori of Thomas." 

See also 

Suffolk Surnames (p. 411 ), by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch. 
Lower's Essays on English Surnames. 

From William, Richard, John, we get Williamson, Richard- 
son, Johnson and probably Jones. 



GENEALOGY 



-OF THE- 



FAMILYOFTHOMASTOMKINSON,Esq., 

OF KNIGHTLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE. ENGLAND, 
BORN CIRCA 1620. 



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KEY TO THE GENEALOGY OF THOMAS TOMKINSON, 
BORN CIRCA 1620. 

James Tomkinson, b. 171 1, the grandson of Thomas Tomkinson, 
b. circa 1620, had the following issue: James, Henry, Edward and 
Catherine. 

Henry Tomkinson, b. 1741, the second son of James Tomkinson, 
b. 171 1, had the following issue: Edward, James, Henry (who mar- 
ried Harriet Sophia Philips), William (b. 1790), Anna Maria, Frances 
Beatrix and Arabella. 

James Tomkinson, the second son of Henry Tomkinson, b. 1741, 
had the following issue: Henry James, Ann and Julia. 

Henry Tomkinson, the third son of Henry Tomkinson, b. 1741, 
had the following issue: Edward, Francis William, Henry Richard, 
Sophia Anne and Charlotte. 

Sophia Anne Tomkinson (Cotton), elder daughter of Henry 
Tomkinson, the third son of Henry Tomkinson, b. 1741, had the fol- 
lowing issue: Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton (now Cotton-Jodrell) 
and Ursula Mary Cotton. 

William Tomkinson, b. 1790, had the following issue: William, 
James (b. 1S40), Henry (who married Lucy Gore\ Robert Edward, 
Edward Philip. Susan and Sibella Eliza. 

James Tomkinson, b. 1840, the second son of William Tomkin- 
son, b. 1793, had the following issue: Charles William, J imes Ed- 
ward, Henry Archdale, Margaret Frances, B,irb;ira Elizabeth and 
Joyce Beatrice. 



THOMAS TO MKINSON, Esq , of Knightley, county 
of Stafford, England, b. circa 1620 ; m. Margaret, daughter of 
Mathevv Bayley, Esq., of Northbury, and had issue: 

(1) JAMES TOMKINSON (Rev.), Vicar of Sandon, b. 1650; 

d. s. p. 1709. 

(2) HENRY TOMKINSON, Rector of Ashley, d. s. p. 1731. 

(3) JOHN TOMKINSON, Rector of Knightlev. 

(4) WILLIAM TOMKINSON, of Bostock, of whom presendy. 
(1) ELIZABETH TOMKINSON. 

(2j JOYCE TOMKINSON. 

The 4th son, WILLIAM TOMKINSON. of Bostock, Cheshire, 
England, b. circa 1652: d. 1719: was twice married, and had, by 
his first wife, a son. 

(1) WILLIAM TOMKINSON, of Bostock, b. 1703, who had 

issue William Tomkinson, of Bostock. b. 1725; d. s. p. 1770. 
He married secondly, Mary Bayley, and had another son 

(2) JAMES TOAIKINSON, Esq., of Dorfold, Nantwich, Cheshire, 

England, b. 171 1 (son of \\'illiam Tomkinson, Esq., of Bos- 
tock, by Mary Bayley, his second wife) ; m. 1738, Katherine, 
second daughter of Thomas Wettenhall, Esq., of Nantwich, 
derived from a younger son of Wettenhall, of Wettenhall, 
Cheshire, England, and had issue 

(1) JAMES TOMKINSON (Rev.), Rector of Davenham; m. 

Mary, daughter of John Wood, Esq., and had issue, one son, 
James Tomkinson, who died without issue. 

(2) HENRY TO.MKINSON, of whom presently. 

(3) EDWARD TOMKINSON, who succeeded his cousin, Wil- 

liam Tomkinson, in the property of Bostock Hall, Cheshire, 
took the name of Wettenhall : m. Miss Marsden, and had 
issue. 
(I) CATHERINE TOMKINSON, m. Very Rev. George Cotton, 
Dean of Chester, Cheshire, uncle to the first Lord Comber- 
mere. 
The second son (of James Tomkinson. Esq., of Dorfold, Nant- 
wich, Cheshire) : 

HENRY TOHKINSON, Esq., 01 Darfold, Nantwich, b. 1741; 
m. 1770, Anne, daughter of John Darlington, Esq., of Ashton, 
count\- of Chester, and had issue : 

(1) EDWARD T0.1KINS0N, d. unmarried. 

(2) JAHES TOriKINSON (Rev.), of Dorfold Hall, m. Julia, 

daughter of John Nesham, Esq., and had issue ; 

(i) HENRY JA]\iES TOMKINSON, d. unmarried. 

(i) ANN TOMKINSON, ni. 1844, Wilbraham-Spencer Tolle- 
niache, Esq. (brother of John, first Lord Tolleniache), of 
of Dorfold Hall, J. P. and D. L. ; High Sheriff, 1865 ; late 
rifle brigade and Coldstream Guards, who was b. Oct. 3, 
1807, and d. Feby. 15, 1890. 



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LINEAGE OF WILBRAHAM-SPENCER TOLLEMACHE: 

Lady Jane Tollemache, youngest daughter and co-heir of 
Lyonel, third Earl of Dysart (see Burke's Landed Gentrj' and 
Thomas Helsby's Ormerod's History of Cheshire), m. first, October 
23. 1771, John Delap Halliday, Esq., of the Leasowes, county of 
Salop; and secondly, March 4,' 1802, G— D. Feriy, Esq. She died 
August 28, 1802, leaving, by her first husband, an eldest son : 

John-Richard-Delap Tollemache, Esq., Vice-Admiral of the 
Red, b. 1772, who assumed by Royal License, in 1821, the surname 
and arms of Tollemache; m. February 28, 1797, Lady Elizabeth 
Stratford, daughter and co-heir of John, third Earl of Aldborough ; 
and left issue, among others, Wilbraham-Spencer Tollemache. 

ANN TOMKINSON had issue: 
(i) HENRY-JAMES TOLLEMACHE, of Dorfold Hall, b. 1846, 
J. P. and D. L. county of Chester; Member of Parliament 
for West Cheshire, 1881-85; for Eddisbury, div. Cheshire, 
1885-95 ; late Major Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry. 
(2) ALGERNON-EDWARD TOLLEMACHE (Rev.), b. 1851, 
Vicar of Weston, near Crew, Cheshire; m. September 14, 
1875, Agnes-Marv, daughter of Metcalfe Larken, Esq. 

(1) JULLVELIZABETH-ANNE TOLLEMACHE, m. May 10, 

1873, Charles Savile Roundell, Esq., Member of Parliament, 
youngest son of Rev. Danson-R. Roundell, M. A., Gledstone, 
Yorkshire, England. 

(2) ALICE-GEORGIANA TOLLEMACHE. 

(2) JULL-\ TOMKINSON. m. Sir Henry Rich, Bart., and d. s. p. 

1874. 

(3) HENRY TOMKINSON (Rev.), of Reaseheath, Cheshire, 

England; m. 1824, Harriet Sophia, daughter of Shakspear 
Philips, Esq., and d. 1838, having had issue: 
(i) EDWARD TOMKINSON, of Reaseheath, Colonel in the 
Armv, b. July 11, 1825, entered the 8th Hussars as Comet 
1843^ and served in the Crimea; d. unmarried. May 14, 1870. 

(2) FRANCIS WILLIAM TOMKINSON, b. 1829; d. unmar- 

ried 1864. 

(3) HENRY RICHARD TOMKINSON, Esq., of Reaseheath. 

county of Chester, England, b. .August 28, 1831 ; M. A. 

Trinity College, Cambridge; Barrister-at-law. 
Arms: Az., a cross-patonce between four martlets or, all 

within a bordure erm. 
Crest : A wolf's head erased arg., ducally gorged or. 
Se.\t» : Reaseheath Hall , near Nantwich, Cheshire, England. 
(I) SOPHIA ANNE TOMKINSON, m. 1845, George Edward 

Lynch Cotton, D. D., Bishop of Calcutta (son of Capt. 

Thomas D'Avenant Cotton, of the 7th Fusiliers, killed in 

action in the Peninsular war in 1812), who was drowned 

in the river Hooghly in 1866, leaving one son and one 

daughter : 



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(i) EDWARD THOMAS DAVENANT COTTON, now COT- 
TON-JODRELL (see Jodrell of Yeardsley in Burke's Land- 
ed Gentry), b. June 29, 1847, of Reaseheath and Yeards- 
ley, county of Chester, and of Shallcross, county of Derby, 
England; J. P. county of Chester; Member of Parliament 
(Wirral div.) since 1885; m. April 24, 1878, Mary Rennell, 
daughter of William R. Coleridge, of Salston, Ottery St., 
Mary, Devon. Col. Edward Thomas Da\enant Cotton-Jodrell, 
late Capt. Royal Artillery, commands the 2nd Cheshire Royal 
Engineers Railway \'ols. He assumed the name and arms of 
Jodrell by Royal License in 1890. 

Arms: Quarterly, ist and 4th (for Jodrell) sa., three buckles 
arg.. and 2nd and 3rd (for Cotton) az., a chevron between 
three hanks of cotton arg. 

Crest : A cock's head and neck couped or wings elevated and 
endorsed arg., combed and jelloped gu. (for Jodrell), and 
a falcon rising ppr. legged and belled or, holding in the 
inner claw a strap az. rein and buckle gold. 

Motto : \'igilando. 

Seats: Reaseheath Hall, Kantwich, Cheshire, and Shallcross 
Manor, Derby, England. 

Clubs : Junior L'nited Service and Carlton. 

EDWARD THOMAS DAVENANT COTTON-JODRELL 

Vine issue ' 

(I) GEORGE HENRY COLERIDGE COTTON-JODRELL, b. 
1882; d. same year. 

(1) DOROTHY LYNCH COTTON-JODRELL, b. 1879. 

(2) OLIVE HARRIET COTTON-JODRELL, b. 1883. 



Note. — 

LINEAGE. 

The Jodrells of Yeardsley were settled at Yeardsley, county of 
Chester, towards the middle of the reign of Edward III. 

The first of the name on record possessed, together with his 
sons, land in several townships within the manor of High Peak, 
county of Derby, England. 14 Edward i., A. D. 1286. 

His great-grandson, William Jauderell, the immediate ancestor 
of the family, served as an archer with Edward the Black Prince, 
Earl of Chester, in the French wars. He had his pass from Eng- 
land dated from Bordeaux, 28 Edward III., A. D. 1355, and was 
possessed at his death (as appears from several authentic records) 
of lands in the township of Yeardsley-cum-Whaley, Disley, and 
Kettleshulme, county of Chester, that have been continued ever since 
in the family. [For complete lineage, see Burke's Landed Gentry 
and Thomas Helsby's Onnerod's History of Cheshire.] 



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(1) URSULA MARY COTTON, b. 1857; who married, ist, Rev. 

Walter Hillvard, and 2ndly, Rev. Canon Atkinson; has issue: 
(i) GEORGE WALTER HILLYARD, b. 1880. 

(2) HENRY NOEL ATKINSON, b. 1888. 

(1) HILL YARD (daug-Iiter). Dead. 

(2) CHARLOTTE TOAIKINSON, in. June 29, 1864, Capt. Will- 

iam de Wilton Roche Thackwell. b. Sept. 5, 1834; C. B. 
(Companion of the Bath); of Wynstone Place; Col. 38th 
Regt. ; Knight of the Medjidie (Third Class) ; served in the 
Crimea in 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol ; 
has issue : 
(I) EDWARD FRANCIS THACKWELL, b. Nov. 16, 1868; m. 
Feby. 3. 1894. Catherine, daughter of Sir H. Low, G. C. M. 
G. (Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George), 
and widow of Sir John Pope Hennessy, K. C. M. G. (Knight 
Commander of St. Michael and St. George), of Rostellan 

(1) KATHERINE HARRIET THACKWELL. m. Major Ed- 

ward Rawdon Penrose, B. S. C. 

(2) FLORENCE MARY THACKWELL . 

(3) ETHEL MARIA THACKWELL. 

(4) WILLIAM TOMKINSON, of WiUington Hall, county of 

Chester, J. P. and D. L. and Lieut.-Col. in the .'Krmy. of the 
i6th Light Dragoons, b. January 18, 1790; served in the 
Peninsular war from 1809 to 1814 (for which he had a Pe- 
ninsular medal with four clasps), and was severely wounded 
at the passage of the Douro. He was also at the battle of 
Waterloo. lie purchased the estate of WiUington Hall from 
Lord -Alvanlcy, in 1828: m. Feby. 9. 1836. Susan, daughter 
of Thomas Tarleton, Esq., formerly of Bolesworth Castle, 
county of Chester (nephew of Gen. Sir Banastre Tarleton), 
by Frances, daughter of John Egerton, Esq., of Oulton 
Park, and d. 1872, having had issue : 

(1) WILLIAM TOMKINSON, m, April 25, 1866, Sarah, 2nd 

surviving daughter of the late Dudley North, Esq., of 
Rougham ; d. s. p. March, 1870. 

(2) JAMES TOMKINSON. Esq.. of WiUington Hall, countv of 

Chester, England, b. July 8, 1840; J. P., High Sheriff, 1887; 
Major and Hon. Lieut.-Col. in the Earl of Chester's Yeo- 
manry Cavalry ; 2nd. but eldest surviving son of Lieut.-Col. 
William Tomkinson, b. 1790; m. Dec. 12, 1871, Emily 
Frances, only daughter of Sir George Joseph Palmer, 3rd 
Bart, of Wanlip Hall, county of Leicester, by Emily, young- 
est daughter of George i-'eter Holford, Esq., of Westonbirt, 
countv of Gloucester, England ; and has issue : 

(i) CHARLES WILLIAM TOMKINSON, b. June 13. 1877. 

(2) JAMES EDWARD TOMKINSON, b. Dec. 2, 1879. 



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(3) HENRY ARCHDALE TOMKINSON. b. June 19, 1881. 
(i) MARGARET FRANCES TOMKINSON. 

(2) BARBARA ELIZABETH TOMKINSON. 

(3) JOYCE BEATRICE TOMKINSON. 
Arms^ etc. : Same as Tomkinson of Reaseheath. 
Seat : Willingto'n Hall, Tarpoley, Cheshire, England. 

Note. — James Tomkinson, b. July 8, 1840, was educated at 
Rugby, Balliol College, and Oxford. He is a Member of Parlia- 
ment. Clubs : Brooks, National Liberal, Bath. Has edited "The 
Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Cam- 
paigns, 1809-1815, by Lieut.-Col. William Tomkinson" (his 
father). 

(3) HENRY TOMKINSON, m. May 17, 1877, only daughter, 

Lucv, of the late Ralph Gore, Esq. 

(4) ROBERT EDWARD TOMKINSON, b. 1847: m. 1874, Lu- 

cile Diana Mauritia, only daughter of Major-Gen. Thomas 
Brooke, 2nd son of Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Bart, of Nor- 
ton Priory. 

(5) EDWARD PHILIP TOMKINSON, b. 1850; m. 1876, at 

Los Angeles, California, Frances Ethel, daughter of Hugh 

Morgan, Esq. 
(i) SUSAN TOMKINSON, m. 1861, Richard Hoare, Esq., of 

Cromer, Norfolk, and Marden Hill, Herts. 
(2) SIBELLA ELIZA TOMKINSON, m. 1881, Rev. J. L. 

Brvans. 

(1) ANNA HARIA TOHKINSON, d. unmarried. 

(2) FRANCES BEATRIX TOMKINSON, d. unmarried. 

(3) ARABELLA TOHKINSON, m. Gen. Richard Egerton, of 

Eaton Banks, county of Chester, England ; d. s. p. i860. 
[See Burke's Landed Gentry and Thomas Helsby's Omerod's 
History of Cheshire, vol. 3, pp. 241, 243, 244, 348, 349, 351, 357, 
480, 481, and Index.] 



NOTES FROM THE CHESHIRE DIRECTORY. 
[Forwarded by Mr. Percy Booth Tomkinson, of London, England.] 

(Page 17.) 

ACTON. — This is a township village and large parish on the 
road from Nantwich to Cliester. two miles west from Nantwich 
station, on the Crewe and Shrewsbury section of The London and 
North Western Railway. The Shropshire union canal passes through 
to Ellesmere for Liverpool, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and 
Shrewsbury. The parish of Acton now consists of twelve town- 
ships. 

St. Mary's Church is a fine building of red sandstone, in the 
early English and perpendicular styles, with some remains (in- 
cluding the base of the tower) of Norman work, and alterations 



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of later date, of a debased character, and consists of chancel cleres- 
toried nave of four bays, aisles, and a western embattled tower with 
pinacles containing a clock and six bells. This tower was originally 
much loftier, but a portion of it having fallen during a storm on 
the 15th of March, 1757, it was thought advisable not to restore 
it to its original height. At the eastern extremity of the south aisle, 
there is a chapel belonging to the Wilbraham family, of Dorfold 
Hall, which contains an altar tomb with recumbent effigies in white 
marble to Richard Thomas Wilbraham and Elizabeth, his wife, 
with Latin inscriptions dated 1661. At the east end of the north 
aisle there is an interesting canopied monument with recumbent 
effigy to one of the Mainwarings ; but the inscription is now almost 
obliterated. .At the back of the monument, there are wall paint- 
ings of heads. The church also contains a brass, with arms to 
Wilbraham Spencer Tollenmache, Esq., of Dorfold Hall, (died 
1890), and Ann Tomkinson, his wife (died 1871). The east 
and west windows and one in the south aisle are stained. Some 
fragments of early Norman arcading with figures were put together 
and placed in the Wilbraham chapel, in 1897. The whole church 
was completely restored in part at the expense of Mr. E. Sutton 
Timmins. in memory of his mother. The chancel was repaired by 
the patron, and the organ chamber by Henry James Tollemache, 
Esq., M. P., of Dorfold Hall. The register dates from the year 
1653. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value i-Z^Z- with eight 
acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Lord Tollemache, of 
Helmingham, who is also impropriator of the great tithes, and is 
held by Rev. Herbert Moore, AL A., of Keble College, Oxford. 
The Sir R. Wilbraham and Huxley charities, amounting to about 
iioo yearly, are devoted to the maintenance of eight poor widows, 
and to apprenticing poor girls and boys. There are also three 
charitie.s — together about ii6 yearly — for the distribution of bread 
to the poor of the parish. Some of these charities are supported 
by Lord Tollemache. The church lands of 24 acres, 2 rods, 37 
perches, with houses, etc., yield £40 yearly, for church purposes. 

Dorfold Hall was built in 1616, on the site of a former resi- 
dence by Sir Ralph Wilbraham, Master of the Courts of Requests 
in Ireland, in the reign of James i. It contains several oak paneled 
rooms, and, among them, one with the Royal arms and the 
inscription, "I. R. 1621" on stone. Above the mantlepiece, over 
the fireplace, in the drawing room, are the arms, painted on stone, 
of the three Knights of the Garter, who accompanied the King on 
his journey to Nantwich, the Earl of Burleigh, the Earl of Derby, 
and Sir Christopher Hatton. The drawing room contains a fine 
ornamental ceiling with pendants and a cornice, and is a fine speci- 
men of Elizabethan period of work. There are also several pictures 
by celebrated painters, including Gainsborough and Hondekoeter; 
among them is a fine portrait of Mr. Tomkinson (mentioned below) 



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by Gainsborough, and a beautiful portrait of his two sons by the 
same artist. Dorfold Hall was sold, in 1754, by the Wilbrahams, 
and is now the property of a descendant, Henry James Tollemache, 
Esq., M. P., D. L., J. P., who succeeded to the property which his 
mother, the great-granddaughter of Mr. James Tomkinson, was the 
heiress. The park extends 150 acres, and contains some fine timber. 

Henry James Tollemache, Esq.. M. P., of 42 Halfmoon street, 
London, west, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. 

The soil is a good mixture, with a subsoil of sand and clay, 
and is chiefly devoted to grazing for dairy produce. 

The area of the township is 771 acres, ratable value £1905. 
The population, in 1901, was 258. 

I (Page 287.) 

BOSTOCK.— This is a township and village in the parish of 
Davenham on the road from Middlewich to Warrington, two 
miles and a half northwest from Middlewich station, on the Crewe 
and Acton bridge branch of The London and North Western 
Railway, in the Middlewich section of the Middlewich and Sand- 
bach petty sessional division. 

The descendants of Osmerus, Lord of Bostock, in the time 
of William L, adopted the name of the township as their surname, 
and this lordship was held by them for some centuries. Another 
branch of the family settled at Abington, Berkshire, and built a 
house on the Fitzharris estate, now the property and residence of 
Mr. J. A. Clarke, of Boar's Hill, near Abington. in which are some 
paneled rooms with the Bostock arms. Several members of the 
family were mayors of Abington. Towards the latter part of the 
fifteenth century, an heiress of the Bostocks brought it in marriage 
to the Savages. It was afterwards vested in the Whitmores of 
Apsley. who sold it to William Tomkinson. Esq. It was acquired 
by Thomas France. Esq., in 1793. 

Bostock Hall, erected in 1775. is a handsome mansion of 
brick, standing in an extensive and well wooded park, formerly the 
propertv of the France family, and now of Col. Charles Hoskin- 
France-Hayhurst. J. P. D. L. The site of the old hall, taken 
down in 1803. is now occupied by a farm-house. At Bostock 
Green, stood an ancient oak tree, now cut down, said to have been 
placed there to mark the centre of the county. Another oak was, 
however, planted in its place, in 1887, the Jubilee year of Her Late 
Majesty, Queen \'ictoria, three generations of the France-Hayhurst 
family being present. The area, 11 50 acres of land, produces wheat, 
potatoes, oats, turnips, and some pasture, and there are 15 acres 
of water. Ratable value, £2126. Population, in 1901, was 197. 

(Page 288.) 
DELAMERE.— The manor belongs to the crown. The Earl 



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of Haddington and Major James Tomkinson, of Willington Hall, 
Willington, are the chief landowners. 

(Page6i6.) 

WILLINGTON. — -There is the village club and reading room, 
built in 1887, by Lieut. Col. Tomkinson, to commemorate the Jubilee 
of Her Late Majesty, Queen Victoria. 

Willington Hall, a handsome mansion of red brick, standing 
in a small park, was enlarged and thoroughly restored in 1878. It 
is the seat of Lieut. Col. James Tomkinson, M. P., J. P., D. L., the 
principal landowner. 

The area is 1030 acres, ratable value £1871. Population, in 
1901, 146. 

(Page 628.) 

W.-\RLESTON.— The register dates from the year 1872. 
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £199, with residence, in the gift 
of Henry Richard Tomkinson, Esq., and held since 1 881, by Rev. Wil- 
liam Yates, of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford. The vicarage house, built 
by Mr. Tomkinson. is a red brick building with mullioned win- 
dows. Here, also, is a free Methodist Chapel, built in 1891. 

Reascheath Hall, the seat of Col. Edward Thomas Davenant 
Cotton-Jodrell, commanding the 2nd Cheshire R. E. (Ry.) Volun- 
teers, (late Capt. of the R. A.), J. P., is an ancient gabled resident 
mansion of red brick, which was thoroughly restored in 1878 and 
1892. It stands in a well-timbered park of about 200 acres, and 
was purchased by the Tomkinson family from the Windsors, about 
the year 1760. In 1881, the then owner, Henry Richard Tomkin- 
son, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. handed the estate over to his nephew, 
the present occupier. 

Rookery Hall, a modern residence of stone, beautifully situated 
on a commanding eminence, is the residence of Baron William 
Henry Von Schroder, D. L., J. P. 

Warleston Grange is a building of brick and stone with good 
pleasure grounds. 

The principal landowners are Baron Von Schroder and Henry 
Richard Tomkinson, Esq. 

Area 1139 acres: 12 acres of water. Ratable value £2363. 
Population, in 1901, 435. 



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BIRTHS. i MARRIAGES. I DEATHS. 



GENEALOGY 



-OF THE- 



FAMILY OF THOMAS TOMKINSON, 

BORN 

WHOSE ANCESTORS MIGRATED FROM CHESHIRE 

TO STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 

CIRCA 1730. 



THOMAS TOM KIN SON (whose ancestors migrated 
from Cheshire to Staffordshire, England, circa 1730), m. Frances 

(who died October 6, 1854); d. 1838; left issue: 

MICHAEL TOMKiNSON, Esq., of Leamingson Priors, Eng- 
land; m. April 13, 1839, Sarah, daughter of James Grigg, Esq., 
of the Beeches, Kidderminster; d. March 22, 1886, having had issue 
by her (who d. Sept. 10, 1890) : 

(1 ) MICHAEL TOMKINSON, Esq., of Franche Hall, near Kid- 
derminster, and of Chilton, county of Salop; J. P. and 
county Alderman, county of Worcester, and J. P. borough 
of Kidderminster; Mayor of Kidderminster, 1888, 1893, 
1894, 1895; High Sheriff for county of Worcester, 1892; b. 
May 29, 1841; m. Sept. 13, 1871, Annie, daughter of 
Matthew Porrit Stonehouse, Esq. (by his wifCj Elizabeth) ; 
Publications: A Japanese Collection, 2 Vols., 1898; Recrea- 
tions : Shooting, fishing, and interested in Japanese arts and 
early printed books and manuscripts. 
Arms: Az., a cross-flory, between in the first and fourth 
quarters two martlets, and in the second and third quarters 
as many wolves' heads erased or, all within a bondure-erm. 
Crest : In front of a cross-flory gu. a wolf's head erased arg. 

gorged with a collar flory counter-flory also gu. 
Motto : Sperans pergo. 
Seats: Franche Hall, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire; 

Chilton, Cleobury, Mortimer, Shropshire, England. 
Clubs : Arts, Burlington Fine Arts. 
Has issue: 

(1) HERBERT TOMKINSON, b. Dec. 16, 1873. 

(2) GERALD TOMKINSON, b. Aug. 31, 1876. 

(3) WILFRED TOMKINSON, b. Nov. 15, 1877. 

(4) RAYMOND TOMKINSON, b. May 24, 1880. 

(5) GEOFFREY STEWART TOMKINSON, b. Nov. 7, 1881. 

(6) FRANCIS MARTIN TOMKINSON, b. Oct. 21, 1883. 

(7) CHARLES TOMKINSON. b. Aug. 4, 1893. 
U) GERTRUDE TOMKINSON, b. Aug. 21, 1872. 

(2) MARION TOMKINSON, b. Dec. 26, 1878. 

(3) DORA SLOANE TOMKINSON, b. Nov. 15, 1886. 

(4) MARGARET GROSVENOR TOMKINSON, b. Sept. 21, 

1891. 

(5) CHRISTINE TOMKINSON, b. Aug. 4, 1893. 

(2) JAMES TOMKINSON. 

(3) JOHN TOMKINSON. 

(1) SARAH TOMKINSON, now deceased. 
[See Burke's Landed Gentry.] 



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BIRTHS. 



MARRIAGES. 



DEATHS. 



GENEALOGY 

OF THE 

FAMILY OF JOHN TOMKINSON, 

BORN APRIL 25. 1758 

AT KIEL, IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD, 
ENGLAND. 



JOHN TOM KIN SON was born April 25, 1758, at Kiel, 
Staffordshire, England; d. Tuesday, September 15, 1829. The year of 
his birth William \aughan, a liner draper of Stafford, the first 
forger on the Bank of England, was executed ; the wooden bridge 
over the Thames was burned, and John Wesley itinerated and 
preached on the western coast of Ireland. He was a year old 
when Eugene Aram was executed at York for the murder of 
Daniel Clark in Knaresborough in 1745 ; eleven when Madam du 
Barry came into power; twenty-three when Lord Cornwallis sur- 
rendered to Washington at Yorktown ; thirty-one at the beginning 
of the French 'Revolution, and thirty-five when Louis XVI. was 
beheaded, Marie Antoinette was executed, and Robespierre became 
Dictator. Married Martha Myett (b. Sept., 1760, at Lane End, 
Staffordshire; d. Tuesday, July 25. 1826, at Stoke, Staffordshire). 
Potter. Had issue : 

(1) JOHN TOMKINSON, b. October 11. 1781 ; d. . 1823, 

at Liverpool, England. Travelled through Europe. En- 
gaged in wars against Xapoleon. Lost an arm in the battle 
of Salamanca. Returned to England. Married. Had chil- 
dren, one of whom was named Isabella. 
(2; JOSEPH TOMKINSON, of whom presently. 

(3) RICHARD TOMKINSON, b. February 22, 1786; d. 

1787. 

(4) SAMUEL TOMKINSON, b. July 22. 1790. 

(5) WILLIAM TOMKINSON, b. December 29. 1794. 

(6) BENJAMIN TOMKINSON, b. June 9, 1798; d. Monday, 

November 15, 1830, at Rochester, Monroe county, New 
York. Married Anne . who afterwards married 
Jones, a liusiness man in Rochester. Died without issue. 

(2) JOSEPH TOHKINSON (son of John Tomkinson, b. 1758), 

b. July II, 1784. probably in Staffordshire, England; d. 
Tuesday, September 15, 1835, at Pultneyville, Wayne coun- 
ty, New York. Superintendent of Herculaneum Potteries, 
near Liverpool, for several years preceding 1826. Came to 
America in 1828, and settled at Pultneyville, N. Y. Joined 
the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
in New York. Married Thursday, January 28, 1808, 
Sarah Davis ( b. November 20, 1782, at Burslem, 
Staffordshire; d. Sunday, January 14, 1866, at Pult- 
neyville, N. Y.), of Liverpool, at St. Anne's Church, 
Liverpool, by Rev. William Blandell. Had issue: 
Maiar, Joseph, Benjamin. William Davis, Samuel 
Davis, Mary Ann M\ett, John Britton and Edmund Wright. 
(I) MARIA TOn'KINSON', b. Wednesday, October 26, 1808, in 
Bedford street, Liverpool, England; d. Tuesday. March 6, 
1888, at Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York. Came 
to America in 1829, and to Canandaigua in 1836. Married, 



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i828, Walter H. Hunter [b. 1797, at Diimfrieshire, Scot- 
land; d. Thursday, March 15, i860, at Canandaigua, N. Y. 
(Carpenter: Cabinet -Maker)], at Liverpool. Had issue: 
Joseph Tomkinson, Helen, Sarah Davis, Catharine Maria, 
Martha lane Scott and Marv Lushea (or Lustria). 

(i) JOSEPH TOMKINSON HCiNTER, b. Wednesday, July 22, 
1829, at Pultneyville, Wayne county, New York. Married 
Sunday, August 2"], 1854. Mary Butler Towne (b. Friday, 
February 14. 1834, at Canandaigua, N. Y. ; see Lineages of 
the Towne and Norris [Norreys] families), at Palmyra, 
Wayne county, N. Y. Carpenter. Served as a private 
with Battery E, Third New York .\rtillery, during the Civil 
War. Address : Canandaigua, New York. Had issue : 
Grace Sally, Helen Pauline, Walter Sawyer, Maud Cor- 
nelia, Mary .Mice, Theodore Clarke, Julia Beebe, Charles 
Francis and Ralph Perry. 

(i) GRACE SALLY HUNTER, b. Monday, June 18, 1855, at 
Canandaigua, Ontario county. New York. Married Thurs- 
day, December 25, 1873, Joseph Frederick James [b. Sunday, 
November 30, 1845, at Birmingham, England; d. Friday, 
September 20. 1889, at Evergreen, Conecuh county, Alabama 
(Coal and Iron NIerchant)], at Norwalk, Huron county, 
Ohio. Address: Montevallo, .Alabama. Has issue: Mary 
.Alice, Frederick Harcourt. Grace Maria, Robert Pierson 
and Maude Docia. 

(1) MARY ALICE JAMES, b. Thursday, October i, 1874, at 

Dalton, Whitfield county, Georgia. Married Wednesday, 
November 22, 1899, Stanifer Bennett Bush [b. Saturday, 
April I, 1876, at Jasper. Marrion county, Tenn. (Sheet 
Iron Worker)], at Rossville, Walker county, Georgia. Ad- 
dress: Hill Citv. Tenn. Has issue: 
fO MILDRED ELIZABETH BUSH, b. Wednesday, August 22, 
1900. at Hill Citv, Hamilton countv, Tennessee. 

(2) GRACE HLNTER BUSH, b. Friday, October 18, 1901, same 

place. 

(3) SAMUEL CLAUDE BUSH, b. Monday, May, 18, 1903, same 

place. 

(2) FREDERICK H.XRCOURT JAMES, b. Sunday, May 14, 

1876, at Chattanooga. Hamilton county, Tennessee. Mar- 
ried Thursday. December 18, 1902. Sara Isabelle Camm (b. 
Thursday, May 1 1 , 1876. at Bellevue, Campbell county, Ken- 
tucky), at Bellevue, Kty. Boilermaker. No children. Ad- 
dress: 508 West Sixth street, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

(3) GRACE M.\RIA JAMES, b. Thursday, July 18, 1878, at Chat- 

tanooga, Hamilton county, Tennessee. Married Friday, 
March 20, 1896, William Andrew Welch (b. Wednesday, 
March 21, 1877, at Buchanan, Berrien county, Michigan), at 



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Highland Park, Tenn. Address: 809 East Fourth street, 
Chattanooga, Tenn. Has issue : 

( 1 ) DOROTHY ANNA WELCH, b. Tuesday. April 29, 1902, at 

Rochester, Monroe county. New York. 

(4) ROBERT PIERSON JAMES, b. Monday. December 15, 1879, 

at Norwalk. Huron county. Ohio. Reporter. Address: Care of 
Pullman Palace Car Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

(5) MAUDE DOCIA JAMES, b. Monday, July 26, 1886, at Lees- 

burgh, Sumter county, Florida. Lhimarried. 

(2) HELEN PAULINE HUNTER, b. Sunday, September 6, 

1857, at Canandaigua, Ontario county. New York. Unmar- 
ried. Engaged in the Adjutant-General's office, Albany, 
N. Y. .\ddress : 109 Lancaster street, Albany, N. Y. 

(3) \V.\ETER SAWYER HUNTER, b. Monday, February 27, 

i8fio, at Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York. Mariied 
Wednesda\-. May 6, 1891, Emma May Horn (b. Saturday, 
March 14. 1868, at North Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio), 
at North .\mherst, O. Locomotive Engineer. Address: 
Park wood, Penna. Has issue: 

(1) MARY MARGARET HUNTER, b. Wednesday, November 

23, 1892, at Norwalk, Huron county. Ohio. 

(2) HELEN ISABELLE HUNTER, b. 'Wednesday, January 23, 

1895, same place. 

(3) RAY HALD.\NE HUNTER, b. Monday, March 29, 1897, at 

Prairie Depot, \\'ood county, Ohio. 

(4) MAUD CORNELL\ HUNTER, b. Monday, December 21, 

1863, at Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York. Unmar- 
ried. Address : 6 Park Place, Canandaigua, N. Y. 

(5) .MARY ALICE HUNTER, b. Thursday, September 20, 1866, 

at Canandaigua. Ontario county, New York; d. Monday, 
August 8. 1898, same place. Married Thursday, September 
20, 1894. Frederick Johnson Blair (son of Austin Blair, who 
was Governor of Michigan during the Civil War), Lawyer, 
at Washington, D. C. Died without issue. 

(6) THI'ODORE CLARKE HUNTER, b. Tuesday, February 25, 

1868, at Canandaigua, Ontario county. New York. Married 
Tuesday. June 30, 1903. Pearle Julia Squires (b. Thursday, 
November 2. 1876, at Dalton, Whitfield county, Ga.), at 
Marietta. Cobb county, Ga. Manufacturer of Candy. Ad- 
dress: Chattanooga, Tenn. Has issue: 
THEODORE CLARKE HUNTER, b. Alonday, April 11, 
1904, at Marietta, Cobb county, Georgia. 

(7) JULIA BEEBE HUNTER, b.' Monday, December 2, 1872, at 

Canandaigua, Ontario county. New York. Married Mon- 
day, February 8, 1904, Arthur Craig Brace [b. Sunday, De- 
cember z"/, 1868, at Canandaigua, N. Y. (Photographer)], 
at Canandaigua, N. Y. Address: 151 Meigs street, Roches- 
ter, N. Y. 



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(8) CHARLES FRANCIS HUNTER, b. Thursday. September 

21," 1876, at Norwalk, Huron county, Ohio. Unmarried. 

Stenographer. Address : Canandaigua, N. Y. 
(0) RALPH PERRY HUNTER, b. Thursday, December 5, 1878. 

at Norwalk, Huron county, Ohio; d. Thursday, July 6, 1893, 

same place. 

LINEAGE OF THE TOWNE FAMILY. 

C^n March 25, 1620, William Towne and Johanna Blessing 
were married at St. Nicholas Church, Yarmouth, England. They 
came to America in the year 1630. and settled at Salem, Mass., 
where their residence was known as Northfields. Later, in 165 1, 
they moved to Topsfield, Mass., where William Towne died circa 
1672. They had eight children : Rebecca, John, Susannah, Edmund, 
Jacob. Mary, Sarah and Joseph. 

Rebecca Towne, the eldest daughter, who married Francis 
Nourse, wa^- accused of being a witch, and was taken in chains to 
the meeting-house and formally excommunicated by Mr. Noyes, 
her minister, and was hung on July ig. 1692. The excommunication 
was blotted from the church record in the year 171 2. 

Mary Towne, who married Isaac Estey, was imprisoned for 
five months and executed on September 22. 1692, upon a similar 
accusation. 

A monument has been erected and dedicated to their memory 
near their old homestead. 

Edmund Towne married Mary Browning at Topsfield, Mass., 
and had issue, 

Joseph Towno. who married .\my Smith, March 13, 1687, and 
had issue, 

Daniel Towne, who married Dorothy Dorman. Augi:st 29, 1721, 
at Topsfield, Mass., and had issue, 

Thomas Towne. who married .\nna Trow at Beverly, Mass., 
and had issue, 

Amos Towne (one of the minute men at the battle of Rimker 
Hill), who married Lydia Porter at Peabody, Mass.. and had issue, 

^^'illiam Towne (who. with his uncle, was in the navy with 
Decatur during the War of 1812-13), born .\pril 2, 1792, at Dan- 
vers, Mass., who married Sally Fowler Norris (see "Lineage of The 
Norris (Norreys) Family" below), and had issue, 

Samuel Pliny Towne, a captain in Company F, i2fith Illinois 
Infantry. I'nion army, during the Civil War; who died April 24, 
1896, at Chattanooga. Tenn., where he is buried in the National 
Cemetery. 

Mary Butler Towne. who married Joseph Tomkinson Hunter 
(see Hunter family in the Tomkinson records). 

[See "The Descendants of William Towne in .America (1630- 
1901)." Compiled by Edwin Eugene Towne.] 



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LINEAGE OF THE NORRIS (NORREYS) FAMILY. 

The Norreys family for many centuries were settled at Sutton 
in Lancashire, England. 

In the year 131 1. Sir Henry Norreys, by his marriage with 
Joan, daughter of Sir Thomas iVIolyneux. acquired the manor of 
Speke, in Lancashire : his great-grandson, John Norreys, married 
the Ladv Jane De Vere, daughter of the Earl of Oxford; his son, 
Sir Edward Norreys, of Yattenden, Berks., England, married 
Frideswide, daughter and coheiress of Francis, Lord Lovel and 
Holland. This lady was descended from two princesses of the 
house of Plantagenet, viz.: ist, Eleanor, daughter of Henry, Earl 
of Lancaster, and wife of John, Lord Beaumont : and 2ndly, Joan, 
daughter of Edward I., wife of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare. 

Sir Edward's son. Sir Henry Norreys, who married Mary, 
(laughter of Lord Dacre, of the South, was beheaded in 1536; but 
1-iis son, Sir Henry, who married Margaret, daughter and co- 
heiress of Lord Williams of Thame, was restored and created 
Lord Norreys. His eldest son, William, had a son, Francis, created 
Earl of Berkshire, who left an only daughter and heiress, Eliza- 
beth, who married William Wray ; and their daughter and heiress 
married Montague Bertie. Earl of Lindsay, ancestor of Lord Abing- 
don, in whom the Barony of Norreys now vests ( ?). 

The 2nd, 3rd and 4th sons of Lord Norreys by the co-heiress 
of Lord Williams of Thame died unmarried without issue; but 
his 5th son. Sir Thomas Norreys, left an only daughter, who mat; 
ried Sir John Jephson. 

The families of Norris in Speke, Lancashire, and Ryecote, 
Berkshire, England, are descended from Alain Norreys, from 
whom William Norreys of Sutton was lineally descended. 

William Norreys of Sutton, who married Joan, daughter of 
-Sir John Mohneux of Sefton, was a direct ancestor of 

Sir Henry Norreys, Knight of Speke, Lancaster, who married 
Alice Erencis ; and was succeeded by his elder son, 

William Norreys, Esq., of Speke, who married Perceval Har- 
rington, whose eldest son, 

Thomas Norreys, Esq., of Speke, married Lettice, daughter 
and sole heiress of Thomas Norreys, Esq., of Derby, Lancashire, 
who had issue (among others) 

Nicholas Norreys of Tarleton, who was great-great-grand- 
father of 

Nicholas Norreys, Esq., of Middleforth, Lancashire, born in 
1633. who married Dorothy Farrington ; and was succeeded by 
his eldest surviving son, 

Henry Norreys, Esq., of Penwortham, Lancashire, who mar- 
ried, 1682, Elizabeth Preston; and was succeeded by a posthumous 
son, 

Henry Norreys, Esq., of Penwortham, who married Mary 
Blackledge. 



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Some of the English branches of the Norreys or Norris family 
were early settled in Ireland. Some lived at Armagh, and claimed 
descent from Sir Henry Xorris of Ryecote. who was granted a 
peerage by Queen Elizabeth. 

Nicholas Norris was a descendant of the English branch in 
Ireland, where he was born circa 1640. The first record of him 
in America is at Hampton, New Hampshire, where he married 
Sarah Coxe, November 21, 1663. From him was descended 

Samuel Norris, born May 17, 1759, who fought in the Revo- 
lutionary War, and was with Col. Laommi Baldwin's regiment at 
Sewall's Point on September 25, 1775. He was mustered into ser- 
vice in Capt. Caleb Robinson's company, Col. Nathan Hale's regi- 
ment (which was the 2nd New Hampshire Continental Regiment) 
on February 4, 1777. He married IBetsy Brocklebank, by whom 
he had a daughter, Sally Fowler Norris, born August 7, 1791, at 
Rowley, Mass. He is buried at Canandaigua, Ontario county, 
New York. 

Sally Fowler Norris married William Towne (see "Lineage 
of The Towne Family" above) circa 181 1, and died March 30, 
1872, at Canandaigua, New York. William Towne died October 
3, 1833, at the same place. 

There were seven children of this marriage, of whom Mary 
Butler Towne, born February 14, 1834, who married Joseph Tom- 
kinson Hunter (see Hunter family in the Tomkinson records) was 
the youngest. 

[See Burke's Peerage and Baronetage; Burke's Landed Gen- 
try ; Burke's Baronetcies ; Burke's History of the Commoners ; Or- 
merod's Miscellanea Palatina ; Lineage and Biography of Norris 
Family in America, 1640-1892.] 

(2) HELEN HUNTER, b. Thursday, August 26, 1830, at Pult- 

neyville, Wayne county. New York; d. Tuesday, November 
4, 1902, at Canandaigua, Ontario county. New York. Edu- 
cated at a (leaf mute institution in New York City, having 
lost her hearing ( the effect of scarlet fever) at the age of 
three and a half vears. Never married. 

(3) SARAH DAXTS HUNTER, b. Sunday. February 12, 1832, 

at Pultneyville, Wayne county, New York. Married Wed- 
nesday, January 18, 1854, JefTery J.* Sweet [b. circa 1828, 
in Vermont; d. Thursday, March 12, 1874. at Chicago, 111. 
(Contractor and Builder)], at Canandaigua. N. Y. Ad- 
dress: L^nion City. Branch county. Michigan. Had issue: 
Emma Charlotte and Elizabeth. 
(1) EMMA CHARLOTTE SWEET, b. Wednesday, November 
18, 1857, at Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York. Mar- 
ried (i) Monday, October i, 1877, John McNaughton [b. 

*Simply a letter. 



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U'ednesday, July lo, 1844, at Racine, Racine county, Wis- 
consin (Hardware Merchant)], at Battle Creek, Calhoun 
county. Mich: (2) Wednesday, October 8. 1884, Lewis Mal- 
lette [b. Thursday, October 8. 1857. at Malone, Franklin 
county, X. Y. (Hotel Proprietor: now of the firm of Mallette 
& Cooper, Union Hotel, Union City, Mich., and Ossawina- 
makee Hotel, Manistique, Mich.) |. at Detroit, Wayne county, 
Mich. No children. Address: Manistique. Schoolcraft 
county, Michigan. 
(2) ELIZABETH SWEET, b. Friday, May 6. 1859, at Battle 
Creek, Calhoun county, Michigan. RIarried Wednesday. 
December 11. 1878. Robert McSherry Cooper [b. Sunday, 
May 6, 1855, at Battle Creek. Mich. (Hotel Proprietor: 
now of the firm of Mallette & Cooper, L'nion Hotel, Union 
City, Mich., and Ossawinamakee Hotel. Manistique, Mich.)], 
at Battle Creek, Mich. Address ; Union City, Branch coun- 
ty, Michigan. Has issue : 
JOHN HUNTER COOPER, b. Wednesday, July 25. 1888. 
at Battle Creek. Calhoun county. Michigan. 

(4) CATHARINE MARIA HUNTER, b. Saturday, June 28, 

1834, at Pultneyville, Wayne county. New York ; d. Thurs- 
day, July 14, 1904, at Canandaigua, Ontario county. New 
York. Never married. 

(5) MARTHA JANE SCOTT HUNTER, b. Monday, July 17, 

1837, at Canandaigua. Ontario county. New York; d. Thurs- 
day, .A.ugust 30. 18^8. same place. 

(6) MARY lI'SHEA (or LUSTRIA) HUNTER, b. Friday, 

February 12, 1841. at Canandaigua. Ontario county. New 
York; d. Thursday. July 16. 1868, at Elmira, Chemung 
county. New York. Married . Theodore Clarke, 

an Express Messenger, or Conductor, on the Erie Railroad, 
New York. Had issue : 

-CLARKE (a son), who died in infancy. 



(2) JOSEPH TOMKINSON (eldest son of Joseph Tomkinson, 
b. 1784), b. Thursday, June 11, 181 2, at Herculaneum 
Potteries, near Liverpool. England : d. Sunday, November 
3. 1895. "^^ Harrisburg. Dauphin county, Penna. Married 
— Sarah .\nn Eldridge (b. Wednesday, January 20, 1813, at 
Bethlehem, Hunterdon county. New Jersey : d. Monday, Oc- 
tober 7. 1889. at Harrisburg. Dauphin county. Penna.), 

daughter of William Eldridge and Theodocia , at 

Williamson, Wayne county, N. Y. Was at one time engaged 
in pottery manufacturing at Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y. 
Had issue : Theophilus Lessey, William Eldridge] Martha 
Mvett, Tohn, Ellen Finn and Sarah Maria. 

(I) THEOPHILUS LESSEY TOMKINSON (Rev.), b. Tues- 
day, July 19. 1836. at Pultneyville, Wayne county, New 



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York. Educated at Union School, Lyons, N. Y. ; also by 
private tutors. Clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church : ordained in 1864. Married Monday, May 30, 1864, 
Laura Elizabeth Hayman (b. Tuesday, October i, 1844, at 
Fruitland. Wicomico county, Maryland; Secretary of The 
Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, Central Pennsylvania Conference : author of 
"Twenty Years' History of The Woman's Home Missionary 
Society of The Methodist Episcopal Church"), at Princess 
Anne, Somerset county, Maryland. Address : 43 N. Hickory 
street, Mount Carniel, Northumberland county, Penna. 
Has issue: Charles Cookman, Horace Lessey and Laura 
i\Iearns (Mvrna). 
H) CHARLES COOKMAN TOMKINSON, b. Friday, April 
2"]. 1866, at .Annamessex, Somerset county, Maryland. 
Graduated from Lehigh University, School of Mechanical 
Engineering. Class of 1890. Vice-Prest. of A. D. Granger 
& Co., Inc., Contracting Engineers, New York City, N. Y. 
Married Thursday, October 17, 1895, Mary Virginia Wisler 
Hoyt (b. Sunday, June it. 1871, at New Cumberland, Cum- 
berland county, Penna.), at New Cumberland, Penna. Ad- 
dress: 120 Grove street, Plainfield, Union county, New 
Tersev. Has issue : 
CHARI.ES HOYT TOMKINSON. b. Wednesday. February 
3. 1897, at Erie. Erie county, Penna. 

(2) HORACE LESSEY TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, September 

29. 1868. at .Annamessex, Somerset county, Maryland. 
Graduated from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Class 
of 1894. Unmarried. Address: Cape May City, New Jer- 
sey. 

(3) LAURA MEARNS (MYRNA) TOMKINSON, b. Friday, 

June 26. 1874. at Zion. Cecil county. Maryland. Educated 
at a private .school conducted by her aunts, the Misses Tom- 
kinson. in Ilarrisburg. Penna.. and at the Teachers' Col- 
lege. Columbia University. New York City. Unmarried. 
Teacher at Jacob Tome Institute (boarding school for boys), 
Port Deposit. Md. Address: Port Deposit, Cecil county, 
T^Iarvland. 
(2) WILLIAM ELDRIDGE TOMKINSON (Rev.), b. Thurs- 
da}'. September 21. 1837, at Canandaigua. Ontario county. 
New York. Educated at LTnion School. Lyons, N. Y. ; Con- 
cord Biblical Institute. Concord, New Hampshire (now the 
Theological Department of Boston University) ; won one of 
two prizes of equal value upon competitive examination at 
Sabbath .School .Assembly, Round Lake. New York ; took 
a four years' course of study in connection with the New 
York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; 



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ordained Deacon and Elder in said conference. Married, 
Wednesday, December 23, 1874, Julia Elizabeth Redford 
(b. Tuesday, February 25, 185 1. at Sherman. Fairfield 
count)-. Conn.), daughter of Benjamin Redford and Han- 
nah Parker, at Cutchogue, Suiifolk county. New York. Ad- 
dress : 123 West Louther street, Carlisle, Cumberland coun- 
ty, Penna. Has issue: Julia Annie, Benjamin Redford, 
Joseph William, Paul Eldridge and Mabel Parker, 
(i) JULIA AXNIE TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, May 31, 
1876, at West Suffield. Hartford county, Connecticut. Ad- 
dress: 123 West Louther street, Carlisle, Cumberland county, 
Penna. 

(2) BENJAMIN REDFORD TOMKINS(3N, b. Tuesday. March 

5, 1878, at West Granby, Hartford county. Connecticut; d. 
Wednesday. December 19, 1883. at Chesapeake City, Cecil 
county, Maryland. 

(3) JOSEPH WILLIAM TOMKINSON, b. Friday, June 20, 

1879, at East Norwich, Queens county. New York; d. Sat- 
urday. Noy ember 6. 1880, same place. 

(4) PAUL ELDRlDCiE TOMKINSON. b. Monday. December 

19. 1881, at Longwood. Orange county. New York. Grad- 
uated from Dickinson College. Carlisle, Penna., June 10, 
1903. Professor of Mathematics in the Preparatory School 
of Dickinson College. Unmarried. .\ddress : Carlisle, 
Cumberland county, Penna. 

(5) MABEL PARKER' TOMKINSON. b. Sunday. August 10, 

1884, at Princess Anne, Somerset county, Maryland. Senior 
in Dickinson College. Unmarried. .Address: Carlisle, 
Cumberland county. Penna. 

(3) MARTHA MYETT TOMKINSON. b. Thursday, July 25, 

1839, at Canandaigua, Ontario county. New York. Edu- 
cated at Union School, Lyons. N. Y. Principal of the Girls' 
High School, Harrisburg, Penna., 1875-70: conducted (with 
her sister, Miss Ellen Finn Tomkinson) a school for begin- 
ners for college preparation at Harrisburg. 1880-98 ; Precep- 
tress of Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for 
Missionaries and Deaconesses of The Woman's Home Mis- 
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at 
Washington. D. C. 1899-1904. .Address: Harrisburg. 
Dauphin county, Penna. 

(4) JOHN TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, December i, 1841, 

at Canandaigua. Ontario county, Ne\y York : d. Tuesday. 
April 19, 1842, same place. 
("5) ELLEN FINN TOMKINSON. b. .Saturday, December 31, 
1842, at Canandaigua, Ontario coimty. New York. Edu- 
cated at Union School, Lyons, N. Y. : Assistant Prin- 
cipal of the Girls' High School, Harrisburg. Penna., 1875-79; 



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conducted (with her sister. Miss Martha Myett Tomkinson) 
a school for beginners for college preparation at Harris- 
burg, Penna. 1880-98 : Assistant Preceptress of Lucy Webb 
Hayes National Training School for Missionaries and Dea- 
conesses of The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Washington, D. C, 1899- 
1904. Address : Harrisburg, Dauphin countv, Penna. 

(6) SARAH MARIA TOMKINSON, b. Friday,' November i, 
1844, at Canandaigua. Ontario county. New York; d. circa 
1846, same place. 

(3) BENJAHIN TOflKINSON [Rev.] (son of Joseph Tomkin- 
son. b. 1784), b. Sunday, June 19, 1814, at Herculaneum 
Potteries, near Liverpool, England ; d. Thursday, May 7, 
1 89 1, at Pultneyville, Wa_\ne county, New York. Married 
Thursday, October 24, 1839, Mary Ann Nash (b. Monday, 
April 13, 1812, at Williamson, Wayne county, N. Y. ; d. 
Tuesday, April 19, 1892, same place), at Williamson, N. Y. 
Farmer. Tanner. Minister in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church for twenty-five years. Had issue : Nancy Nash. 
Reuben Nash and Harriet. 

fi) NANCY NASH TOMKINSON. b. Tuesday. December 8. 
1840, at Williamson, Wayne county. New York. Married 
Thursday. October 26, 1865, Philip Stevens Swancott [b. 
Friday. July 25, 1828, at Llanidleus, Montgomeryshire, 
North W'ales (Farmer)], at Williamson, N. Y. Address: 
Pultneyville. Wayne county, N. Y. Has issue : Mary Jennie, 
David William and Philip Benjamin. 

(O M.VRY JEXXIE SWANCOTT, b. Sunday, September 30. 
1866, at Williamson, Wayne county, New York. Married 
Thursday, December i. 1892, Peter Overslaugh [b. Friday, 
October 20, 1865, at Sodus, Wayne county, X. Y. ; d. Tues- 
day, December 10, 1895, at Newark, Wayne county, N. Y. 
(Teacher)], at Williamson, N. Y. No children. Address: 
Pultnevville. Wavne countv, N. Y. 

(2) DA\TD WILLIAM SWANCOTT, b. Tuesday, January 26, 

1869. at Williamson, Wayne county. New York. Married 
Monday, .-Vpril 24, 1890, Susy Sheldon (b. Tuesday, April 
28, 1868, at Lee, Oneida county, N. Y.), at Lee Centre, 
Oneida county, N. Y. Farmer. No children. Address: 
Pultneyville, Wayne county, N. Y. 

(3) PHILIP BENJAMIN SWANCOTT, b. Friday, March 14, 

1884, at Williamson. Wayne county. New York. Farmer. 
L'nmarried. .\ddress : Pultnevville. Wavne county, N. Y. 
(2) REUBEN NASH TOMKINSON, b. Saturday. November 
12, 1842. at Williamson, Wayne county. New York. Mar- 
ried Wednesday. November 16, 1870, Rosetta Vorse Spring- 
er (b. Tuesday. December 16. 1845. ^' Heart Prairie, Wal- 
worth county, Wisconsin), at Rochester, Monroe county. 



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N. Y. Miller. Address : Pultneyville, Wayne county, N. Y. 
Has issue : Roscoe Springer. Samuel Raymond, Edmund Roy 
and Rubv Vorse. 

(1) ROSCOE SPRINGER TOMKIKSON, b. Monday, Septem- 

ber 9. 1872, at Williamson, Wayne county, New York. Mar- 
ried(i) Wednesday, March 20, 1895, Mary Isabelle Benton 
(b. Wednesday, September 20, 1871, at Pultneyville, Wayne 
county, N. Y. ; d. Tuesday, February 2^. 1897, at Rochester, 
Monroe county, N. Y.), at Pultneyville, N. Y. ; (2) Wed- 
nesday, June 22, 1904, Marilla Church Allen (b. Tuesday, 
February 7, 1882, at Mendon, Monroe county, N. Y.), at 
Honeoye Falls, Ontario county, N. Y. Miller. Address: 
East Rush, New York. Has issue (bv ist wife) : 
LEO BENTON TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, June 4, 1896, 
at East Rush, New York: d. Frida\', July 17, 1896, same 
place. 

(2) SAAIUEL RAYMOND TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, Septem- 

ber 29, 1874. at Williamson, Wayne county, New York. 
Married Wednesday, March 26, 1902, Emma Pearl Smith 
(b. Monday, December 31, 1877, at Claredon, Orleans 
county, N. Y.), at Sodus, Wayne county, N. Y. Miller. 
.\ddress: Honeoye Falls, Ontario county, N. Y. Has issue: 
MARJORIE SAIITH TOMKINSON, b.' Wednesday, August 
ig, 1903, at Honeoye Falls, Ontario county, New York. 

(3) EDMUND RCW TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, August 18, 

1880, at W'illiamson, Wayne county, New York. Married 
Wednesday, April 2, 1902, Mabel Alice Earl (b. Wednesday, 
February 6, 1884, at Honeoye Falls, Ontario county, N. Y.), 
at Honeoye Falls, N. Y. Miller. .Address: 715 Seventeenth 
street, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

(4) RUBY \'ORSE TOMKINSON, b. Friday, November 23, 

1883, at Williamson, Wayne county. New York. Book- 
keeper. Address : Pultneyville, Wayne county, N. Y. 
(3) HARRIET TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, August 29, 1847, at 
Williamson, Wayne county. New York. Married Thursday, 
December 5, 1867, Thomas Lester Norton [b. Saturday, 
March 2/. 1847, at Williamson, Wayne county, N. Y. (As- 
sistant to Postmistress at West Olive, Mich.)], at Pultney- 
ville, N. Y. Postmistress at West Olive, Michigan. Ad- 
dress : West Olive. Ottawa county, Mich. Has issue : 
LESTER FAY NORTON, b. Friday, May i, 1874, at Wil- 
liamson, Wayne county, New York. Married Friday, 
September 26, 1902, Flora Lasalle Slack (b. Tuesday, Oc- 
tober 24, 1876 at Hillsborough, Montgomery county, Illi- 
nois), at Hillsborough, 111. Locomotive engineer. Address: 
1700 Wabash avenue, Mattoon county, 111. 



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(4) WILLI An DAVIS TOMKINSON [Rer.], (son of Joseph 
Tomkinson, b. 1784). b. Wednesday, December 25, 1816, 
at Herculaneum Potteries, near Liverpool, England; d. 
Tuesday, July 19, 1898. at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo county, 
Michigan. Married Thursday, December 31, 1840, Alzina 
Huldah Chappell (b. Tuesday, December 23, 1823, at Avon, 
Livingston county, N. Y. ; d. Sunday, May 9, 1897, at Kala- 
mazoo, Mich.), at Pultneyville, Wayne county, N. Y. Mr. 
and Mrs. Tomkinson celebrated their Golden Wedding 
Wednesday, December 31, 1890, at Kalamazoo. Minister 
of the Methodist Protestant Church for many years. Presi- 
dent of the Michigan Conference of the M. P. Church 
for twenty-one years. Had issue; Turner Chappell, Sarah 
Maria, .Almxra Rlizabeth, Alzina Chappell, Mary Ann, 
Flora Esther. William Scott and Clara Belle. 

(1) TURXER CHAPPELL TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, Janu- 

ary 8, 184J, at Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan; d. Fri- 
day, January 2, 1863, at Lexington, Fayette county, Ken- 
tucky. Buried at Pontiac, Mich. Drummer in 22nd Regi- 
ment, Michigan Infantry, during the Civil War. Never 
married. 

(2) SARAH MARIA TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, April 18, 

1844, at Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan. Unmarried. 
Address : 452 West Lovell street, Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo 
countv, Mich. 

(3) ALMYRA ELIZABETH TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, July 

II, 1846, at Pontiac. Oakland county, .Michigan. Married 
Thursday, December 31, 1891, Elihu Waite [b. Wednesday, 
June 16, 1830, at Penfield, Monroe county, N. Y. (Justice 
of the Peace in Tyrone, Mich., for ten years ; in Fenton, 
Mich., for ten years; Hardware Merchant; Notary Public)], 
at Kalamazoo, Mich. Educated at a High School at Pon- 
tiac, Mich. ; took the Chautauqua course at Kalamazoo, and 
graduated from it at Island Park, Indiana. No children. 
Address ; Fenton, Genesee countv, Mich. 

(4) ALZINA CHAPPELL TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, June 

7, 1849, at Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan ; d. Monday, 
November 7, 1870. at Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo county, Michi- 
gan. Buried at Pontiac. Michigan. Never married. 

(5) MARY ANN TOMKINSON. b. Monday, June 4, 1855, at 

White Oak, Ingham county. Michigan ; d. Saturday, Janu- 
ary 6, 1866, at Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan. Buried 
at Pontiac, Michigan. 

(6) FLORA ESTHER TOMKINSON. b. Monday, May 17, 1858, 

at Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan, General Secretary 
of Young Women's Christian Association, Scranton, Pa. 
Unmarried. Address: 205 Washington avenue, Scranton, Pa. 



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(7) WILLIAM SCOTT TOMKINSON, M. D., b. Thursday, 

November 15, i860, at Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan. 
Educated at Kalamazoo Baptist College ; Medical Depart- 
ment of University of Michigan ; College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, University of Illinois, Chicago. Physician. Mar- 
ried Friday. June 17, 1887, Celenia Lowrie (b. Monday, 
April 26, 1858, at Clarkston, Oakland county, Mich.), a,f 
Clarkston, Mich. No children. Address : 452 West Lovell 
street, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo countv, Mich. 

(8) CLARA BELLE TOxMKINSON, b. Thursday, November 15, 

1866, at Pontiac, Oakland county, Michigan. Married Sat- 
urday, August 25, 1883, Fred .\lbert Wheeler [b. Wednes- 
day, March 12, 1862, at North Greece, Monroe county, N. 
Y. (Locomotive Engineer on Michigan Central Railroad)], 
at Constantine, St. Joseph county, Mich. .Address : 325 Ten 
Eyck street, Jackson, Jackson county, Mich. Has issue: 

(1) WILFRED WHEELER, b. Wednesday, November 12, 1884, 

at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo county. Michigan. Married 
Monday, .\ugust 24, 1903, Margaret Leinaar (b. Wednesday, 
November 17, 1886, at Prairieville, Barry county, Mich.), at 
Hastings, Barry county, Mich. Pressman. No children. 
Address : 308 Devo street, Jackson, Mich. 

(2) LULA BELLE WHEELER, b. Saturday, February 19, 1887, 

at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo countv, Michigan. 

(3) BERTHA ELIZABETH WHEELER, b. Wednesday, No- 

vember 26, i8qo, at Jackson, Jackson county, ]\Iichigan. 

(4) HAROLD TOMKINSON WHEELER, b. Saturday, April 

26, 1896, same place. 

(5) HELEN FLORENCE WHEELER, b. Friday, July 15, 1904, 

same place. 
(5) SAHUEL DAVIS TOMKINSON (son of Joseph Tomkin- 
son, b. 1784), b. Thursday, February 11, 1819, at Hercu- 
laneum Potteries, near Liverpool, England; d. Thursday, 
February 22, 1894, at Dansville, Livingston county. New 
York. Married Sunday, Januarv 16, 1853, Sarah Aldrich 
(b. Tuesday, May 2, '1820. at 'Aldrich Hill, Walworth, 
Wayne county. N. Y. ; d. Sunday, .\pril 27, 1902, at Dans- 
ville, N. Y.), daughter of Obed Aldrich and MeHntha Pot- 
ter, at Dansville, N. Y. Captain on the Great Lakes, U. S. 
.•\. for many years. Had issue: Sarah Melintha, Joseph 
Samuel and Julia Eva. 

(1) SAR.\H MELINTHA TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, October 

9, 1858, at Pultneyville, Wayne county. New York; d. Mon- 
day, October 11, 1858, same place. 

(2) JOSEPH SAMUEL TOMKINSON. b. Monday, November 

19, i860, at Pultneyville, Wayne county, New York; d. 
Tuesday, June 16, 1863, same place. 



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(3) JULIA EVA TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, April 9, 1864, at 
Pultneyville, Wayne county, New York ; d. Monday, Janu- 
ary 13, 1879, same place. 

(6) HARY 'ANN HYETT TOVIKINSON (^daughter of Joseph 

Tonikinson, b. 1784), b. Wednesday, August 29, 1821, at 
Herculaneum Potteries, near Liverpool, England ; d. Satur- 
day, February 24, 1894, at Pultneyville, Wayne county. New 
York. Married , William Scott [b. Wednesday, 

.\ugust 22, 1S21, at Sodus, Wayne county, N. Y. ; d. Satur- 
day, December 2. 1865, at Pultneyville, N. Y. (Blacksmith- 
Farmer) |, at I'ultnexville, N. Y. Died without issue. 

(7) JOHN BRITTON TOflKINSON ( son of Joseph Tonikin- 

son. 1). 1784). b. Sunday, March 28, 1824, at Herculaneum 
Potteries, near Liverpool, England ; d. Wednesday, Febru- 
arv 13, 1895, at Pultneyville. Wayne county. New York. 
Farmer. Xevcr married. 

(8) EDHUND WRIGHT TOMKINSON (son of Joseph Tom- 

kinson, b. 1784), 1). Wednesday, November 9, 1825, at Her- 
culaneum Potteries, near Liverpool, England. Married 
Thursday, December 7, 1848, Lovina Heslor (b. Saturday, 
.August 22. 1829, at Montgomery, Orange county, N. Y. ; d. 
Saturday .\ugust 15, 1903. at Clio, Genesee county, Mich.), 
ai Marion, Wayne county, N. Y. Farmer. Address : Clio, 
(ienesee county .Mich. Has issue: Mary, Edmund Scott 
and Esther, 
(i) MARY TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, October 6, 1849, at 
Pultneyville, Wayne county. New York. Married Friday, 
November 10, 1871. Stephen Soper Tinney [b. Wednesday, 
April 26, 1843, in Warren county, N. Y. (Farmer)], at 
.Montrose, (iencsee county, Mich. .Address: Clio, Genesee 
county, Mich. Has issue: Lovina Elizabeth and Lydia M. 

(1) LOVINA ELIZABETH TINNEY, b, Monday, May 25, 1874, 

at \'ienna, Genesee county, Michigan. Educated at a High 
School at Clio. Mich. Married Wednesday, December 15, 
1897, Oscar William Sears [b. Saturday, October 13, 1866, 
at Arbela, Tuscola county, Mich. (Farmer)], at Vienna, 
Mich. Taught school for six years. .Address: Clio, Genesee 
countv, Mich. Has issue : 
THELMA MARY SEARS, b. Tuesday. October 22, 1901, at 
Thetford, Genesee countv, Michigan. 

(2) LYDIA M.* TINNEY, b.' Friday, October i, 1875, at Vienna, 

Genesee county, Michigan. Married Thursday, November 
4, 1897, James Herbert Loomis [b. Thursday, May 29, 1873, 
at \'ienna, Mich. (Engineer)], at Vienna, Mich. .Address: 
Clio, Genesee county, Mich. Has issue: 
FLOYD HERBERT LOOMIS, b. Friday, September 15, 
1899, at \'ienna, Genesee county, Michigan. 



*Siniply a letter. 



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(2) EDMUND SCOTT TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, July 13, 1851, 
at Pultneyville, Wayne county. New York. Married ( i ) 
Thursday, January i, 1874, Carrie Elizabeth Marble (b. 
Saturday, October 4, 1856, in New York; d. Sunday, Decem- 
ber I, 1878, in \'ienna (?), Mich.; (2) Thursday, June 5, 
1879, Annie Mumsell ( b. Sunday, July 3, 1859, at Green 
Oak, Livingston county, Mich.), at Vienna, Mich. Farmer. 
Address: Clio, Genesee county, Mich. Has issue: Addie 
Elvira, Carrie Elizabeth, Walter Scott and eleven other chil- 
dren. 
(By 1st wife) — 

(1) ADDIE ELVIRA TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, November 19, 

1876, at Vienna, Genesee county, Michigan. Married Wed- 
nesday June 13, 1900, Rev. Howard John Hescott (b. Thurs- 
day, September 25, 1873, ^t Brantford, Ontario, Canada), at 
Clio, Genesee county, Mich. Address : Imlay City, Lapeer 
county, Mich. Has issue : 
DONALD GRAY HESCOTT, b. Monday, January 19, 1903, 
at Jeddo, St. Clair county, Michigan. 

(2) CARRIE ELIZABETH TOMKINSON, b. Friday. Novem- 

ber 15, 1878, at Vienna, Genesee county, Michigan; d. Wed- 
nesday, January 15, 1879, same place. 
(By second wife) — 

(3) WALTER SCOTT TOMKINSON. b. Friday, February 25, 

1881, at Vienna, Genesee county, Michigan. Married Thurs- 
day, March 24, 1904, Hattie Staiiford ("b. Saturday. October 
22, 188 1, at Vienna, Genesee county, Mich.), at Clio, Mich. 
Farmer. Address: Birch Run, Saginaw Countv, Mich. 

(4) BERTHA MAE TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, February 15, 

1883, at Vienna, Genesee countv, Michigan. 

(5) LUCY ELOYDIA TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, January 11, 

1885, same place. 

(6) EDMUND WRIGHT TOMKINSON, b. Friday, March 2. 

1888, same place. 

(7) ESSIE CLARA TOMKINSON, b. Sunday. April 13, 1890, 

same place. 

(8) ELSIE TOMKINSON, b. Monday, January 18, 1892, same 

place. 

(9) MARY AMANDA TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, January 

13, 1894, same place. 

(10) FLOSSIE ANN TOMKINSON, b. Friday, January 3, 1896, 

same place. 

(11) CHESTER JAMES TOMKINSON, b. Monday, February 

7, 1898, same place. 

(12) CARRIE PEARL TOMKINSON. b. Monday, December 

25, 1899, same place. 

(13) WARREN TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, January 12, 1902, 

same place. 



so 

(14) LOYDE ELMO TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, March 17, 
1904, same place. 

(3) ESTHER TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, September 8, 1859, 
at Montrose, Genesee county, Michigan. Married Wednes- 
day, July 2, 1879, William Lyons (b. ), at 
Montrose, Mich. Address : Clio, Genesee county, Mich. 
Has issue : Ednv Elizabeth, Edith Elizabeth and Grace Ethel. 

(1) EDNY ELIZABETH LYONS, b. Monday, April 5, 1880, at 

Montrose, Genesee county, Michigan ; d. Tuesday, Septem- 
ber 14, 1880, same place. 

(2) EDITH ELIZABETH LYONS, b. Wednesday, June 22, 1881, 

at Montrose. Genesee county, Michigan. Married Thurs- 
day, June 22. 1899. George R. Brown [b. 
(School Teacher)], at Clio, Mich. .Address: Clio, Genesee 
county, Mich. Has issue : 
AROLD WILLIAM BROWN, b. Thursday, December 27, 
1900, at Clio, Genesee county, Michigan. 

(3) GRACE ETHEL LYONS, b. Saturday, August 22, 1891, 

at Clio, Genesee county, Michigan ; d. Wednesday, Septem- 
ber 23, 1891, same place. 

STATISTICS AND COINCIDENCES. 

[Calculated to .Sept. i, 1904 and based upon known records 
only.] 

John Tomkinson, b. 1758 i 

Known descendants of John Tomkinson, 117 

Known descendants of the parents of John Tomkinson, 

Males 5^ 

Females 62 

Known descendants of John Tomkinson. 
Descendants in 2nd gen. (children) 

" " 3rd gen. (grandchildren) 

" *' 4th gen. (great-grandchildren) 

" ■' 5th gen. (great-great grandchildren) 

*' *' 6th gen (greal-great-great-grandchildren) 

*' " 7th gen. ^^great-great-grcat-greal-grandchildren) 

Total descendants, 

Living. 
Males 36 
Females 46 

83 





118 








118 






6, 


of whom 


are 


living 


9. 


" 


I is 


living 


29. 


" 


17 are 


living 


52. 




44 " 




17. 


'* 


16 ■• 


" 


4. 


" " 


4 " 


" 


■■7. 


of whom 8a are 


living 



Note. — The descendants of Joseph Tomkinson (2d son of 
John Tomkinson, b. 1758) only are considered in the above table, 
those (other than Isabella, daughter of John Tomkinson, b. 1781, 
who is considered in estimating the number of descendants of 
John Tomkinson. b. 1758) of his brothers being unknown. 



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Longest life: Joseph Tomkinson (b. June ii, 1812; d. Nov. 3, 
1895), 3^'^ gen., 83 years, 4 nioiiths, 22 days. 

Shortest life: Sarah Melintha Tomkinson (b. Oct. 9, 1858; d. 
Oct. II, 1858), 4th gen., 2 days. 

SECOND GENERATIOX. 

Longest life: Joseph Tomkinson (b. July ii, 1784; d. Sept. 
IS' 1835), 51 years, 2 months, 4 days. 

Shortest life: Richard Tomkinson (b. Febv. 22, 1786; d. , 

1787.) 

Marriages : 3. 

United ages: 125 years and upwards. 

THIRD GEXERATION. 

Maria Tomkinson (Hunter), b. Oct. 26, 1808: d. March 6, 
1888, 79 years, 4 months, 8 days. 

Joseph Tomkinson, b. June 11, 1812; d. Nov. 3. 1895, 83 
\ears, 4 months, 22 days. 

Benjamin Tomkinson. b. June 19. 1814; d. ^lay 7, 1891. 76 
years, 10 months, 18 days. 

William Davis Tomkinson. b. Dec. 25. 1816: d. July 19. 1898, 
81 years, 6 months, 24 days. 

Samuel Davis Tomkinson, b. Feby. 11, 1819: d. Feby. 22. 1894, 
75 years, 11 days. 

Mary Ann Myett Tomkinson (Scott), b. Aug. 29, 1821 : d. 
Feby. 24, 1894. 72 years, 5 months, 26 days. 

John Britton Tomkinson. b. March 28. 1824; d. Feby. 13, 1895; 
70 years, 10 months, 16 days. 

Edmund Wright Tomkinson. b. Nov. 9. 1825 ; living. 78 years, 
9 months, 22 days. 

Longest life : Joseph Tomkinson, 83 years, 4 months, 22 days. 

Shortest life : John Britton Tomkinson, 70 years, 10 months, 
16 days. 

Living: Edmund \^^right Tomkinson, 78 years, 9 months, 22 
days. 

Marriages : 7. 

First marriage: Maria Tomkinson (Hunter), , 1828. 

Last marriage : Samuel Davis Tomkinson, Jany. 16, 1853. 

Largest family : William Davis Tomkinson. 8 children. 5 living. 

Smallest families: Benjamin Tomkinson. 3 children, all living; 
Samuel Davis Tomkinson. 3 children, all dead. [Line extinct.] 
Edmund Wright Tomkinson, 3 children, all living. 

Childless: Mary Ann Myett Tomkinson (Scott). 

First death: Maria Tomkinson (Hunter), ]\Iarch 6, 1888. 

Last death : William Davis Tomkinson. July 19, 1898. 

L^nited ages : 628 years and upwards. 



Note. — The eight persons in this generation are the children of 
Joseph Tomkinson, b. 1784. 



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FOURTH GENERATION. 



Longest life: Joseph Tomkinson Hunter (b. Julv 22,1829), 
still living, 75 years, i month, 10 days. 

Shortest life: Sarah Melintha Tomkinson (b. Oct. 9, 1858; d. 
Oct. II, 1858), 2 days. 

Oldest living : Joseph Tomkinson Hunter. 

Youngest living: Clara Belle Tomkinson (Wheeler), b. Nov. 
15, 1866, 37 years, 9 months, 17 days. 

Marriages: 14. [This does not include plurality of marriage 
by any person.] 

First marriage: Sarah Davis Hunter (Sweet), Jany. 18, 1854. 

Last marriage: Almyra Elizabeth Tomkinson (Waite), Dec. 
31, 1891. 

Oldest person married : Joseph Tomkinson Hunter. 

Youngest person married: Mary Lushea [or Lustria] Hunter 
(Clarke), b. February 12, 1841, d. ; 27 years, 5 months, 4 

days. Clara Belle Tomkinson (Wheeler), 37 years, 9 months, 17 
days. 

Largest family: Edmund Scott Tomkinson, 14 children; 13 
living. 

Smallest family: Mary Lushea [or Lustria] Hunter (Clarke ), i 
child, dead; Harriet Tomkinson (Nortonj, i child, living. 

Childless: Almyra Elizabeth Tomkinson (Waite), William 
Scott Tomkinson. [Children of William Davis Tomkinson.] 

First death: Martha Jane Scott Hunter, August 30, 1838. 

Last death: Catharine Maria Hunter. July 14, 1904, [Children 
of Maria Tomkinson (Hunter).] 

United ages: 1235 years and upwards. 

FIFTH GENER.\TION. 

Longest life: Grace Sally Hunter (James), b. June 18, 1855, 
49 years, 2 months, 14 days. 

Shortest life: Grace Ethel Lyons, b. .\ug. 22, 1891 ; d. Sept. 
23, 1891 : I month, i day. 

Oldest living: Grace Sally Hunter (James). 

Youngest living: Helen Florence Wheeler, b. July 15, 1904; 
I month, 17 days. 

Marriages: 20. [This does not include plurality of marriage 
by any person.] 

First marriage: Grace Sallv Hunter (James), December 25, 

1873- 

Last marriage: Walter Scott Tomkinson, March 24, 1904; 
Roscoe Springer Tomkinson, June 22, 1904 [But not the first 
lime.] 

Oldest person married: Grace Sally Hunter (James). 



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Youngest person married: Wilfred Wheeler, b. November 12, 
1884 : 19 years, 9 months, 20 days. 

Largest family: Grace Sally Hunter (James), 5 children, all 
living. 

Smallest families : Theodore Clarke Hunter, Elizabeth Sweet 
(Cooper), Charles Cookman Tomkinson, Samuel Raymond' Tom- 
kinson, Lovina Elizabeth Tinney (Sears), Lydia M. Tmney 
(Loomis), Addie Elvira Tomkinson (Hescott)> Edith Elizabeth 
Lyons (Brown), each one child, living; Roscoe Springer Tom- 
kinson, I child, dead. 

Childless: Mary Alice Hunter (Blair), Emma Charlotte Sweet 
(Mallette), Mary Jennie Swancott (Overslaugh), David William 
Swancott, Lester Fay Norton, Wilfred Wheeler. 

First death: Carrie Elizabeth Tomkinson, January 15, 1879. 

Last death: Mary Alice Hunter (Blair), August 8, 1898. 

United ages; 1152 years and upwards. 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

Longest life: Mary Alice James (Bush), b. October i, 1874; 
29 years, 11 months. 

Shortest life: Leo Benton Tomkinson, b. June 4, 1896, d.; 
I month, 13 days. 

Oldest living: Mary Alice James (Bush). 

Youngest living; Theodore Clarke Hunter, b. April 11, 1904; 
4 months, 21 days. 

Marriages: 3. 

First marriage: Grace Maria James (Welch), March 20, 1896. 

Last marriage: Frederick Harcourt James, December 18, 1902. 
[Children of Grace Sally Hunter (James).] 

Oldest person married: Mary Alice James (Bush). 

Youngest person married: Grace Maria James (Welch); 26 
years, i month, 14 days. 

[Children of Grace Sally Hunter (James).] 

Larger family: Mary Alice James (Bush), 3 children, all 
living. 

Smaller family: Grace Maria James (Welch), one child, living. 

Childless : Frederick Harcourt James. 

Only death ; Leo Benton Tomkinson, d. July -17, 1896. 

United ages : 195 years and upwards. 

SEVENTH GENERATION. 

Oldest: Mildred Elizabeth Bush, b. August 22, 1900; 4 years, 
10 days. 

Youngest : Dorothy Anna Welch, b. April 29, 1902 ; 2 years, 
4 months, 3 days. 

United ages: 6 years and upwards. 







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SUMMARY. 






United 


ages in 2nd 


Bfeneration. 


125 years 


and upwards 




" " 3rd 


** 


628 








'■ ■' 4th 


'* 


1235 








" " 5th 


*' 


1 152 








" " 6th 


*' 


195 








" " 7th 


(( 


6 








3341 





The descendants of John Tomkinson. b. 1758, were born, mar- 
ried, and died during the different months of the year and on the 
different da\ s of the week as follows : 











Number of 




Births. 


Marriages. 


Deaths. 


Events 


Januar) 


9 


4 


4 


17 


February 


II 


I 


3 


15 


March 


6 


4 


I 


II 


April 


8 


2 


I 


II 


May 


7 


2 


I 


10 


June 


II 


6 


I 


18 


July 


12 


I 


5 


18 


August 


8 


3 


2 


13 


September 


10 


2 


3 


15 


October 


8 


5 


I 


14 


November 


13 


4 


5 


22 


December 


12 


ro 


I 


23 



115* 44t 28t 

♦Excluding 2 births, the dates of which are unknown. 

fExcluding 6 marriages, the dates of which are unknown, but 
including second marriages by three persons. 

^Excluding 7 deaths, the dates of which are unknown. 

Births : More occurred in November than in any other month 
■ — about one-ninth. 

Marriages: More occurred in December than in any other 
month — about one-fourth. 

Deaths : More occurred in July and November than in other 
months — one-third. 



Note. — John Tomkinson, b. .April 25, 1758, d. September 15, 
1829. is not included in the above table, as it refers to his de- 
scendants only. 

Note. — The most of these events occurred in December — about 
one-eighth. 



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Number of 




Births. 


Marriages. 


Deaths. 


Events. 


Monday 


21 


5 


5 


31 


Tuesday 


9 


I 


7 


17 


Wednesday 


i8 


14 


4 


36 


Thursday 


19 


17 


6 


42 


Friday 


17 


4 


2 


23 


Saturday 


12 


I 


3 


16 


Sunday 


13 


2 


I 


16 



occurred on Thursday than on anv other 



109* 44t 28I 

*ExcIuding 2 births, the dates of which are unknown, and 6 
births which took place before 1800. 

fExcluding 6 marriages, the dates of which are unknown, but 
inckiding second marriages by 3 persons. 

^Excluding 7 deaths, the dates of which are unknown. 
[See note as to John Tomkinson at the foot of the table re- 
lating to months.] 

Births : More occurred on Monday than on any other day — 
about one-fifth. 

Marriages : More 
day — about one-third. 

Deaths : More occurred on Tuesday than on any other day — 
about one-fourth. 

Note. — The most of these events occurred on Thursday — 
about one-fourth. 
Maria Tomkinson (Hunter), born on Wednesday, first child bom 

on Wednesday. 
Grace Sally Hunter (James),* born on Monday, married on Thurs- 
day, first child born on Thursday. 
Marv Alice James (Bush), married on Wednesday, first child born 

on Wednesday. 
Mary Alice Hunter (Blair), born on Thursday, married on Thurs- 
day. 
Theodore Clarke Hunter, born on Tuesday, married on Tuesday. 
Julia Beebe Hunter (Brace), born on Monday, married on Monday. 
Ralph Perry Hunter, born on Thursday, died on Thursday. 
Sarah Davis Hunter (Sweet), married on Wednesday, first child 

born on Wednesday. 
Emma Charlotte Sweet ('Mallette)t. born on Wednesday, married 

on Wednesday (2d time). 
Elizabeth Sweet (Cooper), married on Wednesday, first child bom 

on Wednesday. 
Joseph Tomkinson, 3d gen., J born on Thursday. 
W'illiam Eldridgc tomkinson. married on Wednesday, first child 

born on Wednesday. 
Benjamin Tomkinson, 3d gen., married on Thursday, died on 
Thursday. 



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Edmund Roy Tomkinson, born on Wednesday, married on 

Wednesday. 
Lester Fay Norton, born on Friday, married on Friday. 
Samuel Davis Tomkinson, born on Thursday, died on Thursday. 
Lydia M. Tinney (Sears), bom on Friday, first child bom on 

Friday. 
Edmund Scott Tomkinson,] | born on Sunday, first child born on 

Sunday. 
Edith Elizabeth Lyons (Brown), married on Thursday, first child 
bom on Thursday. 

*Two other children born on Alonday. 

fist husband born on Wednesday. 

JTwo children born on Thursday. 

I [Three other children bom on Sunday. 
Mary Alice Hunter (Blair), b. Thursday, September 20. 1866; m. 

Thursday. September 20, 1894. 
Reuben Nash Tomkinson, b. November 12, 1842; m. November 16, 

1870. 
William Davis Tomkinson, b. December 25, 1816; m. December 31, 

1840. 
Edith EHzabeth Lyons (Brown), b. June 22, 1881 ; m. June 22, 1899. 
Samuel Davis Tomkinson, b. Thursday, February 11, 1819; d. 

Thursday, February 22. 1894. 
Sarah Melintha Tomkin.son, b. October 9. 1858; d. October 11, 1858. 

This branch is [)articularly remarkable for its characteristic of 
longevity. The eight children of Joseph Tomkinson, b. 1784, passed 
the 70th year: two of them the 8ist. Edmund Wright Tomkinson 
is still living, and will be 79 on November 9, 1904. Maria Tom- 
kinson (ITimter), tlie eldest of these children, had six children, 
four of whom also passed the 70th year, and two are still living. 
F.dmund .Scott Tomkinson (son of Edmund Wright Tomkinson, 
the only living representative of the third generation) had fourteen 
children, thirteen of whom are living. 

Out of 117 descendants of John Tomkinson, b. 1758, 82, or 
nearly three-fourths of them, are living. 

It is suggested that, if the records of John Tomkinson (b. 
1781), Samuel Tomkinson (b. 1790) and William Tomkinson (b. 
1794) — now untraceable — present the same facts as the record of 
the posterity of their brother, Joseph Tomkinson (b. 1784), there 
must be probabiv nearlv 500 descendants of John Tomkinson, b. 
1758. 



Note. — It is curious that the persons representing the longest 
and shortest lives in the fifth generation are each named Grace. 



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BIRTHS. 



MARRIAGES. 



DEATHS. 



GENEALOGY 

OF THE^— 

FAMILY OF JOHN TOMKINSON, 

BORN CIRCA 1771 
NEAR NORTHWICH, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. 



JOHN TOM KIN SON was bom circa 1771, near North- 
wich, Cheshire, England; died circa 1855, aged 84 years, at Hale, 
Cheshire. Buried in parish churchyard at Bowden, Cheshire. Mar- 
ried Martha Booth (^b. , at Dunham, Cheshire, d. at Hale, 

Cheshire), at the parish church in Bowdon, Cheshire. Lived at Tow- 
land Cottages, Hale, Cheshire. Joiner. Had issue; at least John, 

James, William, Peter, Mary, Edwin and Charles. 

JOHN TOHKINSON, b. ' ; d. . Married Betty Potts, 

whose brother, William Potts, was Mayor of Macclesfield. 
Cheshire, circa 1839. Had issue: at least Henry and William. 

HENRY TO.MKINSON, b. . Lived at Oldham. Lancashire. 

England, circa 1884. 

WILLLAM TOAHvINSON, b. Simday. June 11, 1826, at Maccles- 
field, Cheshire, England; d. Tuesday, March 11, 1884, at 
Chelsea, Suffolk county, Massachusetts. Married Martha 
.Martin ( b. . at Macclesfield (?), Cheshire: d. 

probably same place). Silk Weaver. Was in business for 
himself' in Chelsea. Mass., a few years before his death. 
Had issue: 

.ALICE TO^HkIXSON, b. Friday. .April 15. 1864. at Macclesfield, 
Cheshire, England. Came to America circa 1870 with her 
father, William Tomkinson, who settled at Boston, Mass. 
Lived in Boston until the time of her marriage, in 1899, 
when she went West. Educated at a public school in Chelsea, 
Mass. \'isited England several years ago. Married Satur- 
day, June 24, 1899, David Gibson Bennie [b. Friday, Decem- 
ber 14. 1866. at Boston. Mass. (Lumber Merchant and 
proprietor of a saw mill in partnership with another person)] at 
Seattle, King county. State of Washington. Address Box 
82, Stanwood, Snohomish county. State of Washington. Has 
issue : 

ALICE ANNIE BENNIE, b. Friday, November 9, 1900. at Stan- 
wood, Snohomish countv, State of Washington. 

JAHES TOHKINSON, b. ; d. . Married. Had issue. 

WILLIAM TOHKINSON, b. ; d. . Married Hannah 
. Had issue: at least the following: 

JOHN TOMKINSON, b. 

WILLLIAM TOMKINSON, b. . Married. 

JOSEPH TOMKINSON, b. . Married. 

CHARLES TOMKINSON. b. ; d. . Never married. 

PETER TOHKINSON, b. ; d. . Married Jane 

Had issue : at least the following : 

JAMES TOMKINSON. b. . Married. Had issue : at least 

two sons. 

MARY TOnKlNSON, b. ; d. Married John Ashley. 

Had issue: at least the following: 

FANNY ASHLEY, b. 



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WILLIAM ASHLEY, b. 

CHARLES ASHLEY, b. . Note: The widow of a CharUs 

Ashley, Coal Merchant, in this family is living at No. .', 
Egerton Terrace. Altrincliani Crossings, Altrincham. Che 
shire, England. 
SAMCEL ASHLEY, b. 
EUNICE ASHLEY, h. 
EMMA ASHLEY, b. 
MARY ASHLEY, b. 
EDWIN TOHKINSON, h. ; d. voung. Never married. 

CHARLES TOHKINSON ( youngest child of John Tomkin- 
son, b. circa 1771 ). b. Sunday. June 3, 1810, at Hale, Cheshire, 
England; d. M(5nda\, January 23, 1882, at Holloway Clough, Hale, 
lluried in churcliyard at Rowdon, Cheshire. Married Marv 
riionias (b. (\-tober, 1810. at Ruthin, Denbighshire, Nortli Wales; 
d. Thursday, January 3, 1884, at Hale, Cheshire; buried in church- 
yard at Bowdon), at the Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, Eng- 
land, Joiner. Had issue : Edwin, Robert, Charles, Catherine, Wil- 
liam. Marv Ann. Martha, Elizabeth and John. 

(1) EDWIN TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, October 28, 1834, at 

Ashley Heath, Bowdon, Cheshire, England; d. Wednesday, 
December 16, 1840. at Hale. Cheshire. Buried in cluircli- 
vard at Bowdon. 

(2) ROBERT TOMKINSON. b. Friday, February 24. 1837, at 

Hale, Cheshire, England ; d. Wednesday, December t6, 
1840, same place. Buried in churclnard at Bowdon. 

(3) CHARLES TOMKINSON. b. Thursday, July 18, 1839, at 

Hale, Cheshire, England. .Married Wednesday, September 
20, 1865, Mary Walton (b. Wednesday, November 23, 1842, 
at Rostberne. Cheshire), at St. John's Ciiurch. Manchester, 
Lancashire. luigland. Joiner. .Address : The Ainsleys, El- 
land. Yorkshire. Fngland. Has issue : 

MARY HELEN TOMKINSON. b. Thursday, July 30. 1874, at 
Elland. Yorkshire. England. Married Saturday, August 4, 
1894, Lewis Whiteley [b. Tuesday. December 2y. 1870, at 
Newtown, Huddersfiekl, ^'orkshirc (Cotton Spinner)], at 
the parish church in Halifa.x, Yorkshire. Address: The 
.\inslevs, Elland, Yorkshire. England. Has issue; 

CHARLES WHITELEY, b. Tuesday, October 22, 1895. at 
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. 

(4) CATHERINE TOMKINSON, b. Friday, March 12, 1841, 

at Hale, Cheshire, England; d. Sunday, December 17, 1848. 
same place. Buried in churchvard at Bowdon. 

(5) WILLIAM TOMKINSON, b. Thursday. October 20, 1842,. 

at Hale, Cheshire, Fngland ; d. Saturday. June 17, 1893, 
same place. Buried in churchyard at Bowdon, Cheshire. 
Alarried May, 1867, Amelia .Slater (b. Saturday, February 



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12, 1848, at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England), at St. Mar- 
garet's Church, Dunham, Cheshire. Cabinet Maker. Ad- 
dress of Mrs. AmeHa S. Tonikinson : 20 Oxford road, 
Altrincham, Cheshire, England. Had issue: Elizabeth, An- 
nie, Amelia. William, Emily. Frederick, Herbert, Alice and 
Charles. 

(1) ELIZABETH TO.AH^IXSOX, b, Monday. April 13, 1868, at 

Altrincham, Cheshire, England. Educated at St. John's 
School, Altrincham, Cheshire. Came to America in May, 
1892. .Married Saturday. October 5. 1895, Walter Bell [b. 
Thursday, May 15, 1851, at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, 
England (Farmer)], at St. John's Episcopal Church, Fram- 
ingham, Boston, Mass. .\ddress : Owl's Xest Farm. Fram- 
ingham, Boston, Alass. Has issue : 
(I) WILLIAM HENRY BELL, b. Saturday, August 29, 1896, 
at Framingham, Boston, Mass. 

(2) ROBERT WALTER BELL, b. Tuesday, December 12. 1899, 

same place. 
(3I CHARLES TOMKINSON BELL, b. Monday, February 25, 

1 90 1, same place. 
(4j FREDERICK PL.\NNER BELL, b. Saturday. June 20. iqo 

same place. 

(2) ANNIE TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, March 19, 1871, at 

.\ltrincham, Cheshire, England ; d. \N^ednesday, August 5, 
1874, same place. Buried in churchyard at Bovvdon, Che- 
shire. 

(3) AMELIA TflMKINSON. b. Sunday, January 19, 1873, at 

Altrincham, Cheshire, England; d. Thursday, July 9, 1874, 
same place. Buried in churchyard at Bovvdon. 

(4) WILLIAM TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, October 17, 1874. 

at Altrincham. Cheshire, England. Unmarried. Hairdresser 
(in business for himself). Address: 20 Oxford road, 
Altrincham. Cheshire, England. 

(5) EMILY TOMKINSON, b. Friday, November 17, 1876, at 

.\ltrincham, Cheshire, England. Unmarried. .Address : 20 
Oxford road, .Vltrincham, Cheshire, England. 

(6) FREDERICK TOMKINSON. b. Wednesday, February 20, 

1878, at Altrincham, Cheshire, England. Watchmaker. 
Unmarried. Address : 20 Oxford road, .Altrincham, Che- 
shire, England, 

(7) HERBERT TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, March 2-/. 1880, at 

.-Vltrincham, Cheshire, England. Joiner. Unmarried. Ad- 
dress : 20 Oxford road, .\ltrincham, Cheshire, England. 

(8) ALICE TO:\IKINSON. b. Monday, September 12. 1887, at 

Hale, Cheshire, England. 

(9) CHARLES TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, June 14, 1890. same 

place. Joiner (apprentice). 



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(6) ^rARY ANN TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, January 8, 

1845. at Hale, Cheshire, Eng'land : d. Saturday, September 
i8, 1847, same place. Buried in churchyard at Bowdon. 

(7) MARTHA TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, February 19, 1850, 

at Hale, Cheshire, England. Married , Thomas Leigh 

[b. Saturday, June Q, 1849, at Hale, Cheshire; d. Monday, 
January 18, 1886, at Altrincham, Cheshire (Gardener)], 
at the parish church in Bowdon, Cheshire. Address: El- 
lerslie, Albert road, Altrincham, Cheshire, England. Has 
issue : 

(1) OLIVER LEIGH, b. Tuesday, November 2, 1875, at 

LTnmarried. Accountant and Estate .'\gent. Address : 3A 
Stamford street, Altrincham, Cheshire, England. 

(2) ADA LEIGH, b. Sunday, August 11, 1878, at . Un- 

married. 

(8) ELIZABETH TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, August 6, 

1851, at Hale, Cheshire, England; d. Monday, July 7, 1879, 
same place. Buried in churchyard at Bowdon, Cheshire, 
Never married. 

(9) JOHN TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, August 2, 1857, at Hale, 

Cheshire, England. Married Thursday, June 29, 1882, Mary 
Hendry (b. Sunday. March 13, 1859, at Glasgow, Scot- 
land), at Jamaica F'lain, Boston, Mass. Came to America 
and settled at Boston, Mass., 1879. Cabinet Maker. Pat- 
ternmaker. Address : 42 Paul Gore street, Jamaica Plain, 
Boston, Mass. Has issue: 

(1) ANNIE ALLEN TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, February 

22. 1888, at Chelsea, Suffolk county, Massachusetts. At- 
tending Boston High School. 

(2) CHARLES TOMKINSON, b. Monday, August 5, 1895, at 

Boston, Mass.; d. Saturday, March 14, 1896, same place. 



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BIRTHS. I MARRIAGES. I DEATHS. 



GENEALOGY 



-OF THE- 



FAMILY OF JEREMIAH TOMKINSON, 

BORN PREVIOUS TO 1773, 

PROBABLY IN CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. 



JEREMIAH TOMKINSON wasborn .probably 

in Cheshire, England; d. , probably same place. Had issue: 

at least Martha and John. 

HARTHA TOHKINSON, b. , in Cheshire, England; d. 

Married. Settled near Liverpool. Descendants in 
Cheshire, or Lancashire. England. 

JOHN TOMKINSON, b. February 24, 1793, in Cheshire, Eng- 
land; d. January. 1859, at Tunstall, Staffordshire, England. 
Born during the Reign of Terror ; ten years after the first 
balloon ascended from Lyons, France ; twenty-one after the 
first life insurance company was estakjlished in London. He 
was thirteen years old when Gladstone^and Pitt died ; twenty- 
two at the time of the battle of Waterloo; thirty-two when 
the first railway was built in England ; thirty-seven when 
George IV. died ; thirty-eight when the New London Bridg'e 
was opened. Married Hannah Aggart (b. Sunday, Novem- 
ber 30. 1800. in Staffordshire. England ; d. Monday, Janu- 
ary I, 1866. at Tunstall, Staffordshire; buried at Tunstall), 

daughter of Aggart and Sarah . Slip Maker. 

Had issue : at least Anne and John. 

ANNE TOMKINSON. b. ; d. at the age of twenty-one years. 

Buried at Tunstall. Staffordshire. Never married. 

JOHN TOHKINSON, b. Sunday, October 31, 1824, at Tunstall, 
Staffordshire, England ; d. , same place. Buried at 

Tunstall. Married Eliza Cartwright (b. Friday, Decem- 
ber 24, 1824. at Trentham. Staffordshire; d. , at 
Tunstall). The most of his life was spent at Tunstall, 
Staffordshire. Potter : Turner & Tomkinson, Victoria 
Works. Tunstall. Lumber Merchant. Had issue : Ann, 
John. Elizabeth, Hannah, Louisa, Arthur, George Frederick 
and Charles. 

(!) ANN TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday. March 15, 1848, at 
Tunstall, Staffordshire, England ; d. Monday, July g, 1877, 
at Gorsty Hill Hall, Crewe, Cheshire, England. Married 
Ralph Lees. 

(2) JOHN TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, April 15, 1849, at Tunstall, 
Staffordshire, England. Married Sarah Jane Malkin (b. 
Thursday, August 30, 1849, at Tunstall; educated at Bleak 
House School, Burslem, Staffordshire, and Moravian 
School, Neuwied on the Rhine, Coblenz, Germany), daugh- 
ter of William IVIalkin and T^Iargaret Booth, at Rode Heath, 
Cheshire. Educated at a grammar school at Sandbach, Che- 
shire, and Riant Mont School, Lausanne. Switzerland. Pot- 
ter: Evans & Tomkinson, Knowle Works. Burslem, Staf- 
fordshire. Commercial Traveller. Address : 45 Cavendish 
road, Harringay, London, N., England. Has issue: Percy 
Booth, Sidnev and Arthur Leslie. 



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(i) PERCY BOOTH TOMKINSON*, b. Monday, November 25, 
1872, at Burslem, Staffordshire, England. Educated at the 
City Guilds, Cowper street schools, London, England. Mar- 
ried Wednesday, September 6, 1899, Kate Appelbee (b. 
Wednesday, November 3, 1869, in Church street, EdgAvare 
Road. London ; educated at Marylebone High School, Lon- 
don), daughter of Thomas Appelbee and Jane , at 

St. Peter's Church, Hornsey, London, N. Ventilating, Heat- 
ing and Electrical Engineer. Has executed ventilating work 
in the Houses of Parliament and many other important 
public buildings in London, etc. Member of the Society of 
Model Engineers. Recreations : Scientific and Engineering 
Modelmaking and Clocks ; Photography. No children. Ad- 
dress : 69 Effingham road, Hornsev, London, N., England. 

(2) SIDNEY TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, December 12, 1875, at 

Shelton, Staffordshire, England. Educated at the City 
Guilds, Cowper street schools, London. England. Manufac- 
turers' Agent (for ladies' gloves) : Bradbury, Tomkinson & 
Co., 42A Noble street, London, E. C, England. Unmarried. 
Address: 45 Cavendish road, Harringay. London, N., Eng- 
land. 

(3) ARTHUR LESLIE TOMKINSON, b. March, 1878, at 

Burslem, Staffordshire, England ; d. a few months after 
birth, same place. 

(3) ELIZABETH TOMKINSON. b. Monday, May 5. 1851, at 

Tunstall. Staffordshire, England. Married Tuesday, May 5. 
1874, Thomas George Foster, at Tunstall. Has a large fam- 
ilv. Address : 14 Bloor street, Y^orkville, Toronto, Canada. 

(4) HANNAH TOMKINSON. b. Tuesday, September 28, 1852. 

at Tunstall, Staffordshire, England. Buried at Tunstall. 
Married F. T. .Adams. Died without issue. 

(5) LOUISA TOMKINSON. b. Sunday, June 18, 1854, at Tun- 

stall, Staffordshire; d. Friday, October 17, 1879, same place. 
Buried at Tunstall. Never married. 

(6) ARTHUR TOMKINSON. b. Monday, May 18, 1857, at 

Tunstall, Staffordshire, England ; d. — lost at sea — Saturday. 
January 12. 1878. Officer on a mercantile ship. Never 
married. 



*NoTE. — Mr. Tomkinson has under construction, for his own 
use, a novel grandfather's clock, of elaborate mechanism, 
to run eight days without winding, which will chime on 
eight tubular bells every quarter of an hour, strike on a 
cathedral wire gong on the hour, and will play, just after 
the hour, six or eight melodies (one after each hour, until 
all are exhausted) on fifteen bells fitted in the top thereof. 



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(7) GEORGE FREDERICK TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, May 
5, 1859, at Tunstall, Staffordshire, England; d. Wednesday, 
December 23, 1863, same place. 

t8) CHARLES TOMKINSON. b. , at Tunstall, Stafford- 

shire, England. Married. Engineer. Has issue. Last 
"heard of at Sandford Hill, Longton, Staffordshire, England. 



NOTES. 

TUNSTALL: This is a very busy market town. The in- 
habitants are almost entirely engaged in the manufacture of earthen- 
ware and in the iron business. Population about 19,492. 

BURSLEM : This is not a modern town, for it was known 
at the time the Domesday Book was compiled as Bulwardslem. 
In the time of the Stuarts it was called the Butter Pottery, because 
many butter pots were manufactured here. At the end of the 
17th century the making of colored dishes, jugs, etc., was com- 
menced here. Clay articles were not introduced until even later. 
Josiah Wedgwood established his famous pottery at Burslem. Here, 
also, are the Wedgwood Memorial Schools and Museum. Popu- 
lation about 38,766. 



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BIRTHS. i MARRIAGES. DEATHS. 



GENEALOGY 

OF THE 

FAMILY OF JOSEPH TOMKINSON, 

BORN PREVIOUS TO 1779, 

PROBABLY IN CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. 



JOSEPH TOM KINSON was born 17 at 

died circa 1846, at Macclesfield, Cheshire. England, at the home 
of his daughter. Alary Ann Swindles (or Jepson). His grand- 
daughter, Sarah Landis (nee Tomkinson, November 2, 1840), re- 
members that, when a little girl, five or six years old. she saw him 
(at the time a very old man) while on a visit to her aunt Mary's 
home, in Macclesfield : and it was about the time of his death. 
Probably came from Cheshire, England. Alarried ( i ) Elizabeth 
Shakeshaft circa 1800; (2) Bailey ( ?), who died about the 

tune of the birth of Joseph Tomkinson's grandson. William Tom- 
kinson, in 1838. Issue: (i) Thomas (by the first marriage) and 
(2) Mary Ann (by the second marriage). Cabinetmaker. Wood- 
worker. Contractor for woodwork on buildings. 

ELIZABETH SHAKESHAFT* was born 17, at 

: died circa May. 1802 [since her son, Thomes Tomkinson, 
(born August 15, 1801 ) is said to have been but nine months old 
at the time of her death], probably at Middlewich, Cheshire. Eng- 
land. If she married at the average age of marriage [twenty to 
twenty-five years (?) ], and Thomas Tomkinson was born — say a year 
after her marriage, she was probably born circa 1775-1780. As- 
suming this to be the period of her birth, she was born in the 
age when cotton spinning was performed with the aid of the hand 
spinning-wheel. Pianoforte had been invented in Italy but sixty- 
five years before ; the French and Indian war, with its bloody and 
tlisastrous consequences, had taken place only twenty-one years 
before. She was eighteen years old at the time of the Reign of 
Terror. Robespierre and Marie Antoinette. George Washington 
was then in his forties, and the struggles of the Thirteen Original 
States for liberty were making a place in the history of the world. 
Descended from a French family. Probably came from Cheshire, 
England. Had at least a brother, Peter Shakeshaft, who died in 
Middlewich. Married Joseph Tomkinson circa 1800. the last year 
of the eighteenth centurv. 

(I) THOHAS TOMKINSON. born Saturday, August 15, 1801, 
at Salford. Lancashire. England: died (of apoplexy) Friday, 
.August 20. 1880. at No. 2039 East Sergeant street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. (the residence of his third son and fifth child. Joseph Tomkin- 
-son). Only son of Joseph Tomkinson and only child by his first 
wife, Elizabeth Shakeshaft. He spent his boyhood days in Mid- 
dlewich. Cheshire. England. Taught in a night-school when he 
was a young man. probably about twenty to twenty-three years old, 
since he married .Ann Hartley — one of his pupils — in 1824; another 
of his pupils being a farmer, who was forty years old. Married 
Sunday, July 4, 1824. in Eccles Church (Protestant Episcopal), 
Eccles, Lancashire. England. .Ann Hartley (b. Thursday. October 



*NoTE. — There is a reference to a family of Shakeshaft in 
Bardsley's English Surnames (p. 461) as follows: "Anne, daughter 
of Hugh and Elizabeth Shakeshaft, baptized December 6, 1744 
(St. Ann's Register, Manchester)." 



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6. 1803, at Salford. Lancashire, England), daughter and eldest 
child of John Hartley (b. July 6, 1779) and Elizabeth Crossley 
(b. June 10, 1781), having become acquainted with her while with 
an "ice-sliding party." Thomas Tomkinson and his wife Ann and 
the children (with the exception of John, the eldest son, who had 
come over to Hamilton. Canada, five years and a half before) took 
passage in the sailing vessel "Tonawanda." which left Liverpool, 
Lancashire, on Friday, July 16, 1852 ; were forty-five days on the 
water — they use to say "six weeks and three days" — and "three 
days and three nights in a terrific stomi" ; and landed at Walnut 
street wharf, Philadelphia. Penna.. on Monday, August 30, 1852. 
John Tomkinson, the first emigrant, was then sick in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and died five years ami a half later in Philadelphia, Pa. 
:\t this time, also, l"".lizabeth Shakoshaft, the first child, had been 
dead over twciit\-four years, having died in Altrincham, Cheshire, 
England; Elizabeth was in her twenty-sixth; John in his twenty- 
second; Thomas, junior, in his nineteenth; Joseph in his seven- 
teenth; William in his fifteenth, and Sarah Ann in her twelfth, year 
of age. Before the family came to America, they lived in Ellis 
street. Pendleton, and .Seddon street, Salford, both in Lancashire, 
England. P.uried in Mount Peace Cemetery, Thirty-first street and 
Lehigh avenue. Philadelphia, Pa., in lot \o. 346, sec. F, belonging 
to his third son and fiftli child, Joseph Tomkinson. It is thought 
that Thomas Tomkinson had no brothers. He had, however, a 
half-sister, Mary .\nn (daughter of his father's second marriage), 
who was twice married : first to David Swindles ; then to Richard 
Jepson ; and has left descendants in Australia. Had issue : Eliza- 
beth Shakeshaft, Elizabeth. John, Thomas, Joseph, William and 
Sarah .\nn. Woodworker. Teacher. Cabinetmaker. Joiner. 
Bookbinder. 



Note. — It will be observed that there are many curious and 
striking coincidences of circumstances in the family of Joseph 
Tomkinson, here mentioned, and in the various other families bear- 
ing the name of Tomkinson. For instance : Far back in the his- 
tory of many of the families of Tomkinson, the chief business 
seems to have been that of pottery manufacturing; and Sarah 
Landis remembers having heard her father, Thomas Tomkinson, 
remark that the ancestors of Joseph Tomkinson, here mentioned, 
were in that business many ages ago. .Mso observe that the most 
of the families originated in Cheshire ; that Elizabeth Shakeshaft 
died, and was probably buried there ; that Thomas Tomkinson 
spent his boyhood days there (in Middlewich) ; and that Elizabeth 
Shakeshaft Tomkinson died and was buried there (in Altrincham). 
It is quite probable that both Joseph Tomkinson and Elizabeth 
Shakeshaft came from Cheshire ; that soon after they were mar- 
ried, they went north into the next county (that of Lancaster) — 



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(1) ELIZABETH SHAKESHAFT TOHKINSON, b. Saturday, 

September 17, 1825, at Salford, Lancashire, England; d. 
Thursday, June 5, 1828, at Ahrincham, Cheshire, England. 
Buried probably at Altrincham, Cheshire. 

(2) ELIZABETH TOHKINSON, b. Friday, March 16, 1827, at 

Salford, Lancashire, England; d. Sunday, December 28, 
1902, near Houston, Harris county, Texas. Married Richard 
Longbottom [b. Monday. June 4, 1827, at , Eng- 

land ; d. Saturday, Xovember 3, 1900, near Houston, Harris 
county, Texas; buried same place (Shoe Manufacturer)], 
second and youngest .son and sixth child of George Long- 
bottom and Abigail . Buried near Houston, Texas. 
Had issue: (1) Thomas, (2) Ann, (3) Abigail, (4) Abigail, 
(5 and 6) George and Richard (twins), (7) George, (8 and 
9) Samuel and Sarah (twins), and (10) Charlotte. 

(1) THOMAS LOXGBOTTOM. b. Wednesday, November 23, 

1853, at No. 1334 Oxford street, Philadelphia. Pa. Married 
Wednesday. March 31. 1875, .^nna Eliza Switzer (b. Thurs- 
day, March 17. 1853, at Philadelphia. Pa.), eldest daughter 
and secon'd child of Lewis Switzer and Wilhelmina Rodgers, 
at No. 2245 ( n. n. 2249) North Second street, Philadelphia, 
parsonage, by Rev. James Crowe, of Norris Square U. P. 
Church, Philadelphia. Shoe Merchant. Address: 129 
N. Akard street, Dallas, Texas. Has issue: 
(i) LEWIS LONGBOTTOM, b. Saturday, April 15, 1876, at 
No. 2840 Kensington avenue. Philadelphia, Pa. .Agricul- 
turist. Ginner. 

(2) RICHARD LONGBOTTOM, b. Sunday, January 5, 1879, 

at No. 528 Auburn street, Philadelphia, Pa. Married Wed- 
nesday, June 13, 1900, Sarah Tierney (b. Sunday, December 



where Thomas Tomkinson and his seven children were bom; and 
that shortly afterwards they returned to Cheshire [for Thomas 
Tomkinson spent his boyhood days there ( in Middlewich)] , where 
both died: Elizabeth Shakeshaft, in Middlewich (where she died 
when Thomas Tomkinson was but nine months old) ; Joseph Tom- 
kinson, in Macclesfield (where his daughter lived). It will also 
be noted that some of the Tomkinsons originated in Staffordshire. 
Observe the number of clergymen in the family of Thomas Tom- 
kinson, of Knightley. Stafford, born circa 1620, and that of John 
Tomkinson, of Kiel. Stafford, born 1758. It is certainly both plau- 
sible and colorable to theorize, that the general family of Tom- 
kinson originated in Cheshire many ages ago; and that some moved 
north into the next county (that of Lancaster), while others went 
into the first county (that of Stafford) south. It is thought that 
others went to Australia. 



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28, 1879, at Scranton, Pa.), third daughter and sixth child 
of Thomas Tieriuv and Sarah Burk, at No. Brown 

street, Ennis, Ellis county, Texas, by Rev. W. C. Rose. No 
children. Shoemaker. Address : 546 San Jacinto street, 
r^piinc Tcx3s 

(3) THOMAS LONGBOTTOM, b. Sunday, November 13, 1881, 

at No. 332 Stella avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(4) ELIZABETH LONGBOTTOM, b. Tuesday, April 7. 1885, 

at No. 148 Sharpnac street, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Known as "Bessie." Married Tuesday, July 16, 1901, 
George Alexander Elliott [b. Monday, January 10, 1881, in 
Dallas county. Texas (Agriculturist)], son and seventh 
child of .\lexandcr Elliott and Harriet Ann Ferguson, at 
residence of Martin Lively, Justice of the Peace, in Sowers, 
Dallas county, Texa.s. .-Vddress : Sowers, Texas. Has issue ; 
VVILHELMINA MAY ELLIOTT, b. Thursday, December 24, 
1903, at Eagle Ford, Dallas county, Texas. Known as 
"Willie." 

(5) EDWIN LONGBOTTOM, b. Thursday, February 21, 1889, 

at No. 5369 Germantown avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(6) WTLHELMINA MAY LONGBOTTOM, b. Tuesday, Octo- 

ber 16, 1894, at N. \V. cor. Lattinier and Julian streets, Dal- 
las, Dallas county, Texas. Known as "U'illie." 

(2) ANN LONGBOTTOM. b. Saturday, November 3, 1855, at 

No. street, Philadelphia, Pa. : d. (of meningitis) 

Friday, .\pril 15, 1870, at No. 2148 (n. n. 2152) North 
Second street, same place. Buried in L'nion Wesleyan Bu- 
rial Ground (inside of Hanover Street Burial Grounds), 
Hanover and East Thompson streets. Philadelphia. The 
records of the Union Wesleyan Burial Ground do not show 
any inunher or section of grave or lot. 

(3) ABIGAIL LONGBOTTOM, b. Thursday, September 24, 

1857, at No. street. Philadelphia, Pa.; d. (from 

injuries sustained in a fall) circa 1858, on south side of 
Market street above Rose, same place. Buried in a Meth- 
odist churchyard (unknovyn). West Philadelphia. 

(4) ABIGAIL LONGBOTTOM, b. Sunday, May 29, 1859, on 

south side of Market street above Rose, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Married \Vednesday. February 19, 1879, John Henry Taylor 
[b. Tuesday, May 26, 1857, at North Dennisville, Cape 
May county, N. J. (Private Detective)], son [twin to 
William, and both next to Elizabeth (sixth child)] of Seth 
Henry Taylor and Elizabeth Smith, at No. 286 (n. n. 1935) 
East Cumberland street, Philadelphia, parsonage, by Rev. 
' Jacob Dickerson, of Cumberland Street AI. E. Church, Phil- 
adelphia. .Address : 2050 East Birch street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Had issue: 



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(i) HARRY TAYLOR, b. Thursday, December 2, 1880, at No. 
2558 Collins street, Philadelphia, Pa.; d. Sunday, May 3, 
1903, at No. 2123 East Monmouth street, same place. Bu- 
ried in East Cedar Hill Cemetery, Frankford avenue corner 
Dark Run lane, Frankford, Philadelphia, in lot No. 462, 
sec. 3, belonging to John Henry Taylor. 

(2) ELIZABETH TAYLOR, b. Wednesday, June 4, 1884, at 

No. 2155 Adams street, Philadelphia, Pa.; d. same day, same 
place. Buried in Union Wesleyan Burial Ground (inside 
of Hanover Street Burial Grounds), East Thompson street 
and Hanover, Philadelphia, in lot No. 142, grave 4. 

(3) WILBERT TAYLOR, b. Tuesday, January 31, 1888, at No. 

2421 Frankford avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(5) GEORGE LONGBOTTOM, b. Thursday, August 29, 1861, 

Federal Hill, Montgomery between Light and Charles 
streets, Baltimore, Maryland ; d. circa 1862, at Chester, Dela- 
ware county, Pa. Twin to Richard. Buried probably at 
Chester, Pa. 

(6) RICHARD LONGBOTTOM, b. Thursday, August 29, 1861, 

Federal Hill, Montgomery between Light and Charles 
streets, Baltimore, Maryland; said to have died the day of 
birth, same place. Twin to George. Buried probably in 
Baltimore, Md. 

(7) GEORGE LONGBOTTOM, b. Wednesday, June 29, 1864, 

at No. 2319 North Hope street, Philadelphia, Pa. Married 
Tuesday, June 5, 1888, at 4 P. M., Anna Maria Mays (b. 
Monday, July 5, 1869, at Philadelphia), fourth daughter 
and sixth child of Henry Mays and Margaret Vennal An- 
derson, in the Chapel of Protestant Episcopal Hospital, North 
Front street, corner of Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia, by Rev. 
Henry A. Hoyt. Shoemaker. Address : Chickasha, Chicka- 
saw county, Indian Territory. Has issue : 
GEORGE WASHINGTON MAYS LONGBOTTOM, b. 
Thursday, June 6, 1889, at No. 1217 West Somerset street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

(8) SAMUEL LONGBOTTOM, b. Saturday, November 9, 1867, 

at No. 2148 (n. n. 2152) North Second street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Twin to Sarah. Married Mary Cecilia Murphey (b. 
Tuesday, March 9, 1869, at Wilmington, New Castle county, 
Del; d. Saturday, December 7, 1901, at No. 2758 North 
Martha street, Philadelphia ; buried in New Cathedral Cem- 
etery, Philadelphia), daughter and second child of Lewis 
Murphey and Catherine Home, at No. 43 Cooper street, 
Camden, N. J., by Rev. William H. Burrell (M. E. Church). 
Shoemaker. " Address : P. O. Box 540, Ennis, Ellis county, 
Texas. Has issue : 
(i) ALICE ELIZABETH LONGBOTTOM, b. Saturday, April 
12, 1890, at No. 22 D street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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(2) RICHARD LONGBOTTOM, b. Monday, November 30. 1891, 

at No. 3012 Frankford avenue, same place. 

(3) AGNES LONGBOTTOM, b. Saturday, July 8, 1893, at No. 

2948 Frankford avenue, same place. 

(4) MARY LONGBOTTOM, b. Friday, September 10, 1897, at 

No. 2065 Ann street, same place. 

(5) SAIMUEL LONGBOTTOM, b. Sunday, May 28, 1899, at No. 

2065 Ann street, same place. 

(6) ELIZABETH LONGBOTTOM, b. Saturday, August 24, 

1 90 1, at No. 2066 East William street, same place. 

(9) SARAH LONGBOTTOM, b. Saturday, November 9, 1867, 

at No. 2148 (n. n. 2152) North Second street, Philadelphia, 
Pa.; d. (of convulsions) Sunday, September 13, 1868, same 
place. Twin to Samuel. Buried in Union Wesleyan Burial 
Ground (inside of Hanover Street Burial Grounds), Han- 
over street and East Thompson, Philadelphia. The records 
of the Union Wesleyan Burial Ground do not show any 
number or section of grave or lot. 

(10) CHARLOTTE LONGBOTTOM, b. Sunday, November 13, 

1870, at No. 2148 (n. n. 2152) North Second street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Married Mathias Hugue [b. Thursday, March 
II, 1852, in Kiuth, canton of St. .Amarin, arrondissemont of 
Belfort, department of Haut-Rhin, France (Agriculturist)], 
son and eldest child of Mathias Hugue and Marie Angsel, 
in Houston, Texas. Address: Houston, Texas. Has issue: 
(i) RICHARD HUGUE, b. Saturday, February 6, 1897, near 
Houston, Harris county, Texas. 

(2) GEORGE HUGUE, b. Friday, March 29, 1901, same place. 

(3) MARIE HUGUE, b. Thursday, February 26, 1903, same 

place. 
(3) JOHN TOnKlNSON, b. Wednesday, March 24, 1830, at 
Salford, Lancashire, England ; d. Sunday, February 7, 1858, 
at No. O.xford street, Philadelphia, Pa. Educated at a 

school in Hope street, Salford. The first of the family to 
come to America. He came over about 1847, with his Sun- 
day-school teacher, Peter Planning, and went to Hamilton, 
Wentworth province, Canada. He celebrated his seventeenth 
birthday on his way over. This was about five years and 
a half before the rest of the family followed, in August, 
1852. When the others landed at Philadelphia, he was sick 
in Cincinnati, Ohio; and died five years and a half later. 
Married (i) Sophia Wiehe, at Cincinnati, circa 1853. So- 
phia Tomkinson died and was buried, same place, circa 
1855. Married (2) Saturday, October 25, 1856, Esther 
Ann Davis (b. Sunday, June 6, 1830, in Lancaster county, 
Pa.), fifth daughter and sixth child of Joseph Kenney Davis 
and Sarah Ann Ottie, at No. 1437 North Eighth street, 
Philada. , parsonage, by Rev. Isaac Cole, of North Bap- 



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tist Church, Philadelphia. Buried in Odd Fellows' Ceme- 
tery, North 22nd street, cor. Diamond, Philadelphia, in lot 
of H. M. S., 9th grave, west side. Cabinetmaker. Address 
of Mrs. Esther Ann MacKeigen : loio Reno street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Had issue : Clara and Olive Florence. 

(i) CLARA TOMKINSON, b. , who died in infancy 

circa 1855. Buried in Cincinnati, Ohio. [By first wife.] 

(2) OLIVE FLORENCE TOMKINSON. b. Monday, August 3, 
1857, at No. 1332 Oxford street, Philadelphia, Pa.; d. Sun- 
day, July 20, 1902, at No. 530 Market street, Camden, Cam- 
den county, New Jersey. [By second wife.] Married (i) 
Sunday, October 13, 1878, Timothy Cook [b. in England 
circa 1848; d. Tuesday, January 19, 1886, at Philadelphia; 
buried in Evergreen Cemetery, l\It. Ephraim Pike, Camden, 
N. J., in lot No. 35, sec. F. (Dyer)], at No. 142 1 Otis 
street, Philadelphia, parsonage, by Rev. David W. Gordon, 
rector of Siloam M. E. Church, Philadelphia; (2) Wednes- 
day, May 12, 1886, George Frederick Morrell [b. Tuesday, 
June 16, 1840, at Westport, Digby province. Nova Scotia 
(Mariner: Merchant)], second son and second child of Ber- 
nard Morrell and Margaret McGray, at No. 524 Linden 
street, Camden, N. J., parsonage, by Rev. Isaac C. Wynn 
(of Baptist Church). Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Cam- 
den, N. J., in lot No. 35, sec. F. Had issue: Florence 
Knowles, Jessie Davis and George Norman. 

(1) FLORENCE KNOWLES COOK, b. Friday, August 29, 

1879, at No. 2720 Harper street, Philadelphia. Married 
Wednesday, October 21, 1903, William Paine Norris [b. 
Saturday, February 21. 1874, at Jersey City, N. J. (member 
of the firm of Kafer & Norris, Plumbers)], son and eldest 
child of Charles Lane Norris and Annie Schuyler Paine, 
at No. 537 South Walnut street, West Chester, Pa., par- 
sonage, by Rev. William E. Needham, of First Baptist 
Church, West Chester, Pa. No children. Address: 39 
Winona avenue, Norwood, Delaware countv. Pa. 

(2) JESSIE DAVIS MORRELL, b. Thursday, May 29, 1890, 

at No. 530 Market street, Camden, Camden county. New 
Jersey. 

(3) GEORGE NORMAN MORRELL, b. Friday, December 21, 

1894, same place. 

(4) THOMAS TOriKINSON, b. Tuesday, September 17, 1833, 

at Salford, Lancashire, England ; d. Thursday, June 7, 1888, 
at No. 2409 (o. n. 908) Aramingo street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Educated at a school in Hope street, Salford. Married 
Thursday, September 11, 1856, Susanna Featherman Dow- 
land (b. Wednesday, June i, 1831, in Chester county. Pa.), 
daughter and eldest child of Samuel Dowland and Sarah 



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Featherman, at No. 646 North Eighth street, Philadelphia, 
parsonage, by Rev. Joseph H. Kennard, of Tenth Baptist 
Church, Philadelphia. Patternmaker. Buried in Green- 
wood Cemetery (Knights of Pythias), Asylum road, cor. of 
Arrott street, Frankford, Philadelphia, in lot No. 344, sec. 
S, div. 3, which had belonged to himself. Had issue : 
Thomas Spencer, Mary Helen, Eugene, Thomas Hartley, 
Susanna, Samuel, Ruth Elma and Spencer William. Ad- 
dress of Mrs. Susanna D. Tomkinson : 74 Alberta street, 
E. S., Camden, N. J. 

(i) THOMAS SPENCER TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, April i, 
1858, at Tremont, Schuylkill county. Pa. ; d. (of cholera 
infantum) Monday, August 8, 1859, at No. 1525 Cabot street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. Buried in Monument Cemetery, North 
Broad street and Berks, Philadelphia, in lot No. 380, sec. A, 
grave 3, south, belonging to Mrs. Susanna Dowland Tom- 
kinson. 

(2) MARY HELEN TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, November 
30, 1859, at No. 1525 Cabot street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mar- 
ried (i) Wednesday, February 23, 1876, Walter Collins 
Peirce [b. circa 1857, at Philadelphia ; reported dead 
(drowned)], son of Captain John F. Peirce and Sarah Ann 
Hagney, at No. 835 (n. n. 2366) East Cumberland street, 
Philadelphia, parsonage, by Rev. James A. Marshall, of 
George Chandler Memorial (now Beacon) Presbyterian 
Church, Philadelphia; (2) Thursday, June 25, 1903, Wil- 
liam Baker Gamble [b. VVednesday, August 12, 1857, in a 
house located in the rear of what is now No. 5737 German- 
town avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia (Printer)], only 
son and second child of Washington Fish Gamble and Eliza- 
beth Bachman, at residence, No. 16 -Armat street, German- 
town, by Rev. Thomas S. Samson, of First Baptist Church 
of Germantown. Address: 16 Armat street, Germantown, 
Philadelphia, Pa. Had issue : Howard Spencer, Mary Helen 
and Harry Curriden Hagney. 

(1) HOWARD'SPENCER PEIRCE, b. Tuesday, August 7, 1877, 

at No. 326 Hamilton street, Camden, Camden county, New 
Jersey; d. (of croup) Sunday, December 9, 1877, at N. W. 
cor. Sepviva and Wrekin streets, Philadelphia. Buried in 
Kensington Methodist Episcopal Burial Ground (inside of 
Hanover Street Burial Grounds), East Thompson street 
and Hanover, Philadelphia. 

(2) MARY HELEN PEIRCE, b. Friday, November i, 1878, at 

N. W. cor. 20th and Hamilton streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Married Wednesday, April i, 1896, Albert Henry Roberts 
(b. Wednesday, October 4, 1871, at Phillipsburg, Warren 
county, N. J.), son of Henry Roberts and Mary Van 



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Zant ( ?) , in East Baptist Church, Hanover street above 
Girard avenue, Philadelphia, by Rev. Clarence H. Woolston. 
Address : i6 Armat street, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Had issue : 

HARRY ROBERTS, b. Wednesday, October 27, 1897, at No, 
2546 North Sartain street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. Sunday, 
May I, 1898, at No. 1858 Memphis street, Philadelphia. 
Buried in Greenwood Cemetery (Knights of Pythias), 
Frankford, Philadelphia, in lot No. 344, sec. S, div. 3, be- 
longing to Mrs. Susanna Dowland Tomkinson. 

(3) HARRY CURRIDEN PEIRCE, b. Friday, February 18, 
1881, at No. 2557 North Commerce street. Philadelphia, Pa.; 
d. Sunday, May 24, 1885, at No. 2358 North Fourth street, 
Philadelphia. Buried in Monument Cemetery, North Broad 
street and Berks, Philadelphia, in lot No. 380, sec. A, grave 
3, south, belonging to Mrs. Susanna Dowland Tomkinson. 

(3) EUGENE TOMKINSON, b. Monday. May 13, 1861, at No. 

Passyunk avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. (of scarlet 
fever) Thursday, October 8, 1863, at No. 1221 North Third 
street, same place. Buried in Monument Cemetery, North 
Broad and Berks streets, Philadelphia, in lot No. 380, sec. 
A, grave 3, south, belonging to Mrs. Susanna Dowland 
Tomkinson. 

(4) THOMAS HARTLEY TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, March 

29, 1863, at N. E. cor. Ninth and Auburn streets (neigh- 
borhood of Ninth street and Washington avenue), Philadel- 
phia, Pa. Married (i) Martha Stites Wallace (b. Saturday, 
September 8, i860, in Kensington, Philadelphia: d. Sunday, 
January 8, 1888, at No. 827 Almond street, Philadelphia; 
buried in Palmer Street Burial Ground, East Palmer street, 
corner of Memphis, Philadelphia, first grave south of that 
of Matthew W. \^anDusen, main drive, opposite vault), 
daughter and sixth child of John Miller Wallace and Cath- 
erine Sophia Hanes, at No. 1013 North Front street, Phil- 
adelphia, parsonage, by Rev. Samuel T. Kemble, of Front 
Street M. E. Church, Philadelphia; (2) Thursday, Decem- 
ber 31, 1896, Elizabeth Cline Moore (b. Tuesday, August 
10, 1875, at ), daughter and eldest child of John 

Moore and. Elizabeth Cline, at N. W. cor. Dauphin and 
Tulip streets, Philadelphia, parsonage, by Rev. Richard 
Turner, of Summerfield M. E. Church, Philadelphia ; (3) 
Sunday, May 29, 1898, Minnie Louise Morrell (b. Thursday, 
March 26, 1874, at Camden, N. J.), second daughter and 
second child of George Frederick Morrell (second husband 
of Olive Florence Tomkinson) by his second wife, Rebecca 
Llewellyn, at No. 2316 East Dauphin street, Philadelphia, par- 
sonage, by Rev. Forrest E. Dager, of Emanuel Reformed 



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Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Patternmaker. Address: 
729 Pearl street, Camden, N. J. Has issue: Clarence Thomas, 
Kate Grace. Robert Hartley and Edgar, 
(i) CLARENCE THOMAS TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, January 
15, 1884. at No. 827 .-Mmond street. Philadelphia, Pa. [By 
first wife.] 

(2) KATE GRACE TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, June 5, 1886, 

at No. 827 Almond street. Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. Thursday, 
November 10, 1887, same place. Buried in Palmer Street 
Burial Ground, East Palmer street, cor. of Memphis, Phila- 
delphia, in the grave of her mother. [By first wife.] 

(3) ROBERT HARTLEY TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, October i, 

1899, at No. 437 East Walter (now Flora) street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. [By third wife.] 

(4) EDGAR TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, April 19, 1903, at No. 

2318 East Dauphin street, Philadelphia. Pa. [By third 
wife.] 

(5) SUSANNA TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, March 27, 1866, in 

Indian Queen Hotel, Beach and Marlborough streets, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Married (i) Sunday, December 23, 1882, 
Charles Clark Richardson (b. Monday, July 25, 1853, in 
Lancashire, England), only son and second child of Charles 
Clark Richardson and Emeline , at N. E. cor. Sep- 

viva and Cumberland streets, Philadelphia, by Rev. Carroll 
Ghent, of Church of Christian Disciples, Philadelphia; (2) 
Wednesday, December 24. 1890, Joseph Henry LeFevre [b. 
Thursday, April 17, 1856, at Philadelphia (Woodworker)], 
fourth son and sixth child of Isaac LeFevre and Margaret 
Carver, at No. 743 Spruce street, Philadelphia, parsonage, 
by Rev. Alexander H. Boyle, of Protestant Episcopal 
Church; (3) Tuesday, August 27, 1901, Edward Ackly 
Hersperger [b. Monday, April 15, 1867, in Economy town- 
ship, Beaver county. Pa. (Civil Engineer and Surveyor)], 
seventh son and ninth child of Adam Hers])erger and Sarah 
Stratton, at No. 21 13 North Seventh street, Philadelphia, 
parsonage, by Rev. Charles H. Thomas, of Fiftieth Baptist 
Church, Philadelphia. Address : Jarilla. New Mexico. Had 
issue : 
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, b. Monday, August 11, 1884, at N. 
W. cor. 20th and Hamilton street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. 
Wednesday, July i, 1885, on train coming up (between Egg 
Harbor City and Cedarbrook) from Atlantic City, N. J. 
Buried in Belvue Cemetery, East Tioga street, cor. of H 
street, Philadelphia, in lot No. 583, sec. B, grave 4, belonging 
to Charles Clark Richardson. 



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(6) SAMUEL TOMKINSON, b. Monday, August 2, 1869, at 

No. 1022 Richmond street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. (of haema- 
temery) Thursday, August 5, 1869, same place. Buried in 
Monument Cemetery, North Broad street, and Berks, Phila- 
delphia, in lot No. 380, sec. A, grave 3, south, belonging 
to Mrs. Susanna Dowland Tomkinson. 

(7) RUTH ELMA TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, August 9, 

1871, at No. 1225 Ball street, Philadelphia, Pa. Married 
Wednesday, February 25, 1891, George Henry Hollings- 
worth [b. Saturday, December 5, 1863, at Camden, N. J. 
(Machinist)], only son and eldest child of Samuel Huston 
Hollingsworth and Esther Given Thomas, at No. 2409 Ara- 
mingo (now East Letterly) street, Philadelphia, the home of 
her mother, by Rev. Charles H. Bond, of Second Christian 
(Disciples of Christ) Church, Philadelphia. Address; 74 
Alberta street, E. S., Camden, N. T. Has issue: 

(1) GERTRUDE ELMA HOLLINGSWORTH, b. Sunday, 

March 27, 1892, at No. 534 Grant street, Camden, Camden 
county. New Jersev. 

(2) RUTH IRENE HOLLINGSWORTH, b. Saturday, August 

4, 1894, same place. 

(3) ESTHER HOLLINGSWORTH, b. Monday, March 28, 1898, 

at No. mo Cooper street, Camden, Camden county, New 
Jersey. 

(4) MARGUERITE HOLLINGSWORTH, b. Sunday, Decem- 

ber 28, 1902, at No. 74 Alberta street. East Side, Camden, 
Camden countv. New Tersev. 

(8) SPENCER WILLIAM TOM'KINSON. b. Saturday. October 

30, 1875, at No. 837 Almond street, Philadelphia, Pa. En- 
listed as a seaman in Div. B. , ist Naval Battalion, National 
Guards of Pennsylvania, Monday, May 18, 1896. Enlisted 
as a private in Company B, 2nd Regt., N. G. P., Saturday, 
March 6, 1897, for three years ; honorably discharged Fri- 
day, May 13, 1898, on account of enlistment in United 
States service during the war between L^nited States and 
Spain. Enlisted as a private in Company B, 2nd Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry, Friday, May 13, 1898, at Mt. Gretna, Pa. ; 
on garrison duty at Mont Chanin. Delaware ; also on the 
guard of the Dupont powder mills, in that vicinity; partici- 
pated in no engagements. Mustered out of the L^nited States 
service Friday, October 28. 1898. Re-enlisted in Company B, 
2nd Regiment, N. G. P., Monday, January 16, 1899, for three 
years ; re-enlisted Tuesday, May 20, 1902, for three years. 
Married Thursday, September 25, 1902, Maggie Genevieve 
Mohr (b. Monday, May 17, 1869, at Philadelphia, Pa.), 
widow of Augustus Henry Mohr, and daughter and third 
child of John Felix Fenner and Maria Livingston W. 



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Sweeney, at No. 21 13 North Seventh street, Philadelphia, 
Pa., parsonage, by Rev. Charles H. Thomas, of Fiftieth 
Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa. Iron Worker. Address : 
244 East Montana street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Had 
issue : 

HOWARD SPENCER TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, August 30, 
1903, at No. 425 West Ontario street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. 
Monday, November 30, 1903, same place. Buried in Green- 
wood Cemetery (Knights of Pythias), Asylum road, corner 
of Arrott street, Frankford, Philadelphia, in lot No. 344, sec. 
S, div. 3, belonging to Mrs. Susanna Dovvland Tomkinson. 

(5) JOSEPH tOHKiNSON, b. Wednesday, February 10, 1836, 
at Salford. Lancashire, England. Educated at St. Bartholo- 
mew's Episcopal School, Regent road, Salford. Came to 
America with the rest of the family in August, 1852, in his 
seventeenth year. At the beginning of the war between 
the North and South in the United States, he enlisted in 
the 20th Pennsylvania Militia, Col. William B. Thomas; 
but participated in no engagements. Married Thursday, 
March 6, 1862, Julia Adelaide Sandy (b. Monday, March 
7, 1836, at Phila.), daughter and eldest child of William 
Gabriel Sandy and Sarah Berry, at No. 964 Hutchinson 
street, Philadelphia (residence), by Rev. Jonathan S. Willis, 
of Tabernacle Methodist Church, Philadelphia. Foundry- 
carpenter. Retired. Address: (between March and No- 
vember) 63 Franklin avenue. Ocean Grove, N. J.; (between 
November and March), 2230 Estaugh street, Tioga, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Has issue : Joseph Thomas, Sarah Jane, Julia 
Ann, Charles Harry, Henry Tripple, Eliza Howell Berry, 
Frank Armstrong, Esther Gardinier, Edwin Rowsell and 
Samuel. 

(i) JOSEPH THOMAS TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, January 
7, 1863, at No. 2148 (n. n. 2152) North Second street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. Sunday, September 8, 1867, at No. 
2705 Fisher street, same place. Buried in Mount Peace Ceme- 
tery, 31st street and Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia, in lot No. 
346, sec. F, belonging to Toseph Tomkinson. 

(2) SARAH JANE TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, August 17, 

1864, in Deposit, Broome county. New York ; d. Thursday, 
August 3. 1865, at N. E. cor. Venango and Lambert streets, 
Philadelphia, Pa. Buried in Ronaldson Cemetery, Ninth 
and Bainbridge streets, Philadelphia, in lot sec. i, south, 
14 west, belonging to Marv J. Rowsell. 

(3) JULIA ANN TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, December 13, 

1866, at No. 1020 Richmond street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mar- 
ried Monday, June 28. 1897, John Sandy Stuckey [b. 
Thursday, July 21, 1859, at Philadelphia (Restaurateur)], 



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son and third child of Thomas William Stuckey and Mary 
Elizabeth Sandy, at No. 1748 North Twenty-ninth street, 
Philadelphia (residence), by Rev. C. Edgar Adamson, of 
Cumberland Street M. E. Church, Philadelphia. No children. 
Address: 1748 North Twenty-ninth street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(4) CHARLES HARRY TO.MKINSON, b. Friday, November 
6, 1868, at No. 2039 (o. n. 342) East Sergeant street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Married Wednesday, June 18, 1890, Melvena 
Prickett (b. Friday, September 11, 1868, at Philadelphia), 
daughter and third child of James Ireland Prickett and 
Mary Harris Ireland, at No. 121 West Lehigh avenue, Phila- 
delphia, by Rev. John J. Timanus, of Cumberland Street 
M. E. Church, Philadelphia. Carpet Designer._ Address: 
1 158 Glenwood avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Has issue: 
JOSEPH TOMKINSON, b. Monday, April 13, 1891, at No. 
3010 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(•5) HENRY TRIPPLE TOMKINSON. b. Monday, December 5, 
1870, at No. 2039 (o. n. 342) East Sergeant street, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. Married Thursday, December 10, 1891, Hannah 
Myers (b. Wednesday, March 22, 1871, at Yeadon. Eng- 
land), daughter and third child of Israel ]^Iyers and Re- 
becca Rhodes, at No. 43 Cooper street, Camden, N. J., par- 
sonage, by Rev. William H. Burrell (Methodist Episcopal 
Church). Heating Specialist. Address: Glenside, Pa. 
Has issue: Frank Beldon Test, Hannah May and William 
Henry. 

(i) FR.\Nk BELDON TEST TOMKINSON, b. Friday, Octo- 
ber 7, 1892, at No. 1923 North Fifth street. Philadelphia; 
d. Saturday, September 16. 1893. Buried in Mount Peace 
Cemetery, 31st and Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia, in lot 
No. 346, sec. F. belonging to Joseph Tomkinson. 

(2) HANNAH MAY TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, May 11, 1895, 

at No. 3050 North Orianna street, Philadelphia. Pa. 

(3) WILLIAM HENRY TOMKINSON. b. Sunday, January 31, 

1897, on Third street and Tabor road [ist house on north 
side of Tabor road, east of Third street (Presbyterian 
Church now next to it on northeast comer)], Olney, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
(6) ELIZA HOWELL BERRY TOMKINSON. b. Saturday, 
August 10, 1872. at No. 2039 (o. n. 342) East Sergeant 
street, Philadelphia, Pa. Married \\'ednesday, August i, 
1900, at 7.30 P. M., Martin Luther Lawrence [b. Thursday, 
January 9. 1862, at Cain, Salisbury township. Lancaster 
county. Pa. (Bookkeeper)], third son and fourth child 
of Samuel Wetson Lawrence and Caroline Cooper (a first 
cousin or cousin-german of J. Fenimore Cooper, the author), 
at No. 2020 East York street, Philadelphia, parsonage, by 



go 

Rev. Charles H. Rorer, of Cumberland Street M. E. Church, 
Philadelphia. Address: 2455 Natrona street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Has issue: 

(1) FENIMORE COOPER LAWRENCE,* b. Friday, June 7, 

1901, at No. 2455 Natrona street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(2) JOHN DILLER LAWRENCE,* b. Monday, June 30, 1902, 

same place. 

(3) EDWINA MAY LAWRENCE,* b. Friday, May 27, 1904, 

same place. 

(7) FRANK ARMSTRONG TOMKINSON, b. Friday, January 

2, 1874, at No. 2039 (o. n. 342) East Sergeant street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Married Friday, February 26, 1892, Mary 
Wunderlich (b. Saturday, August 8, 1874. at Philadelphia), 
daughter and eighth child of Jacob D. Wunderlich and Pau- 
line Hitner, at No. 43 Cooper street, Camden, N. J., parson- 
age, by Rev. William H. Burrell (Methodist Episcopal 
Church). Grocery Merchant. Address: 5225 Front street, 
Olney, Philadelphia, Pa. Has issue : Frank Raymond, Esther 
Gardinier. Pauline Hitner, Theodore Jacob, Florence \'^iolet 
and Julia .•\delaide. 

(i) FRANK RAYMOND TOMKINSON, b. Friday, December 
23, 1892, at No. 2618 Emerald street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(2) ESTHER GARDINIER TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, Sep- 

tember II, 1895, at No. 2937 North Frankford avenue, same 

d13.C6 

(3) PAULINE HITNER TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, Janu- 

ary 20, 1897, at No. 5519 Bickley (now Palethorp) street, 
Olnev, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(4) THEODORE JACOB TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, October 

30, 1900. at No. 5225 Front street, Olnev, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(5) FLORENCE VIOLET TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, Septenv 

ber 14, 1902, same place. 

(6) JULIA ADELAIDE TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, June i, 

1904, same place. 

(8) ESTHER GARDINIER TOMKINSON, b. Friday, Septem- 

ber 8, 1876, at No. 2039 (o. n. 342) East Sergeant street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. Teacher in Kindergarten at John Welsh 
School (public), corner of Fourth and Dauphin streets, 
Philadelphia, .\ddress : 2230 Estaugh street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

(9) EDWIN ROWSELL TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, November 

3, 1878. at No. 2039 (o. n. 342) East Sergeant street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Married Wednesday, June 6, 1900, at noon, 
Sadie Keller Foulkrod (b. Saturday August 14, 1880, at 



Note. — Each of the above children is a first cousin twice re- 
moved of J. Fenimore Cooper, the author. Their father, Martin 
Luther Lawrence, being a first cousin once removed. 



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Bridesburg, Philadelphia, Pa.), daughter and second child 
of George Foulkrod and Mar>' Willing, at No. 1022 West 
Indiana avenue, Philadelphia, residence of George Foulkrod, 
by Rev. Charles H. Rorer, of Cumberland Street M. E. 
Church, Philadelphia. Publisher. Real Estate Broker. No 
children. Address : 2228 Estaugh street, Tioga, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

(10) SAMUEL TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, February 12, 1882, 
at No. 2039 (0. n. 342) East Sergeant street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Teacher of 7th grade at Kenderton School (public), 
corner 15th and Ontario streets, Philadelphia. Recently 
passed an examination for Supervising Principal in the pub- 
lic schools of Philadelphia. Address : 2230 Estaugh street, 
Tioga, Philadelphia. Pa. 

(6) WILLIAn TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, March 28, 1838, 
at No. — Ellis street, Pendleton, Lancashire, England. 
Fourth and youngest son and sixth child of Thomas Tom- 
kinson and Ann Hartley. Educated at St. Bartholomew's 
Episcopal School, Regent road, Salford, Lancashire, Eng- 
land. Came to America with the rest of the family, and 
landed at Walnut street wharf, Philadelphia, Pa., on Mon- 
day, August 30, 1852. About 1854, in his sixteenth year, 
he shipped aboard the "Vanguard," bound for Liverpool. 
Upon landing at Liverpool, he went direct to Manchester, 
in Lancashire, where he resided, for awhile, with his aunt 
Rachel and Dr. John G. Butcher, at No. 12 Hanover 
street, Shudehill. While in England, he also visited 
his grandparents John and Elizabeth Hartley, at 
No. 5 (?) Seddon street, Salford, Lancashire; also 
his granduncle Benjamin Hartley, at Oldham, Lan- 
cashire; also his aunt Elizabeth Pickup, at No. — Sed- 
don street, Salford, Lancashire ; also his aunt Sarah Cauley, 
at Hulme, Lancashire : also his uncle Edmond Hartley, at 
Camdentown, London ; and also his uncle James Hartley, 
at Radcliife, or Bury. Lancashire. He was in England 
about a year, when his father sent for him to come back to 
America ; returning to Philadelphia, in his seventeenth year. 
He was twenty-three years old when the war broke out 
between the North and South in the United States; and 
enlisting at once, was mustered into service, as a private, 
on Wednesday, May 29. 1861, in 4th Pennsylvania Reserves 
(33rd Pennsylvania Regiment of the line), U. S. Vols., Com- 
pany G, Captain Thomas F. B. Tapper; the enlistment be- 
ing for three years; wounded (shot in the right leg) on 
Wednesday, September 17, 1862. at the battle of Antietam, 
in Maryland ; and discharged from service, on Friday, Janu- 
ary 30, 1863, upon a surgeon's certificate. After the battle 



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of Antietam, he lay two or three days in a trench before 
he was discovered ; and did not get into a hospital until over 
two weeks afterwards. He was taken, first to a private 
house at Boomsboro, Md. ; then to Hagerstown, also in 
Maryland ; then to Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania ; and finally 
to the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia. He also enlisted 
in another regiment, the 2nd Coal (organized for emer- 
gency), Penna. Vols.; the enlistment being for only ninety 
days ; but this body participated in no engagement. Also 
enlisted in the 34th New Jersey corps. Company I, Captain 
William Otis Blood, U. S. Vols. ; enlisted as a 2nd sergeant, 
but acted as an orderly sergeant, while with this regiment. 
While with the 4th Pennsylvania Reserves, in Virginia, he 
was captured during a scouting expedition, and thrown into 
Libby prison, at Richmond, Va., where he was confined for 
probably four to six weeks, when he was finally exchanged. 
His first engagement was in the battle of Drainsville, Vir- 
ginia. After he partially recovered from his wound — afflict- 
ed at Antietam — he enlisted in the navy. He was probably 
about two years in the army and about two years in the 
navy during the Rebellion. Upon going into the navy, he 
went on the receiving ship Princeton, at Philadelphia ; from 
the Princeton he was transferred to the New Hampshire, 
at Port Royal, South Carolina : attached to the South Atlan- 
tic Blockade Squadron ; from the New Hampshire to the 
Memphis, also at Port Royal : attached, at first, to the South 
Atlantic Blockade Squadron ; afterwards to the West Gulf 
Squadron ; from the Memphis to the Grand Gulf : attached 
to the West Gulf Squadron ; and from the Grand Gulf to the 
sloop-of-war called the Portsmouth, at Galveston, Texas; 
also attached to the West Gulf Squadron. While on the 
Portsmouth he was rated as, and aboard the Memphis and 
the Grand Gulf he was, master-at-arms. He enlisted in the 
navy for a year; but went about seven months over his 
enlistment. It was while upon the Portsmouth, that he 
came into the Brooklyn navy yard at the close of the war. 
While with the 4th Pennsylvania Reserves, he fought in at 
least the following engagements and battles: Fair Oaks, 
Chickahominy, Gaines Mills, Malvern Hill, Bull Run (2nd), 
Fredericksburg, Bristow Station and Hatcher's Run — all in 
Virginia ; and South Mountain. Antietam, Poplar Springs 
and Monocacy — all in Maryland. In the 34th New Jersey, 
he fought in at least one battle : that of Paducah, Kentucky. 
.Aboard the Memphis, he participated in at least the follow- 
ing naval battles : Mobile Bay, .A-labama ; Fort Fisher, North 
Carolina. Ironfounder. Married (ist) Saturday, Septem- 
ber I, 1866, Sarah Elizabeth Pilgrim [b. at Philadelphia, Friday, 



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April 2, 1852; d. Monday, September 25, 1882, same place; 
(see note)] daughter and eldest child of William Godfrey Pil- 
grim and Alary Jane Moore, at No. 1236 North Tenth street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. (residence of Aquila Haines), by Aquila 
Haines, Alderman for the city and county of Philadelphia; 
(2nd) Friday, March 28, 1884, Amanda Naylor Mumbauer, 
b. at Philadelphia, Saturday, September i, 1838), daughter 
and eldest child of Joseph Naylor and Mary Holbert, and 
widow of Edward Mumbauer, at No. 511 Brown street, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., parsonage, by Rev. James F. Powers, rector 
of Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advent, Philadel- 
phia. Had issue by Sarah Elizabeth Pilgrim: (i) Mary 
Jane and (2) Newton Powers; [stepdaughter, Laura Mum- 
bauer, only child of Edward Mumbauer and Amanda Nay- 
lor, who married Edward Bullock; and has two children: 
Emma and Elsie Bullock. J Address: 448 Olive street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

(1) MARY JANE TOMKINSON, b. Thursday, October 31, 

1867, at No. 2019 North Second street, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
d. Wednesday, July 25, 1883, at No. 815 Norris street, same 
place. Buried in North Cedar Hill Cemetery, Frankford 
avenue, corner Dark Run lane, Frankford, Philadelphia, in 
lot No. 591, sec. T, belonging to Mrs. Mary Jane Pilgrim. 

(2) NEWTON POWERS TO.MKINSON, b. Tuesday, Decem- 

ber 22, 1874, at No. 1429 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. He enjoys the uncommon distinction of having been 
held, when a baby, in the arms of Sitting Bull, the famous 
warrior and Indian chief (of the Dacotas). The occasion 
arose in this way : During the Centennial Exposition in Phil- 
adelphia, in 1876, he, in the care of his father, William 
Tomkinson, happened to be near a carriage containing Sitting 
Bull and other Indians (who were visiting the exhibition in 
Philadelphia, on their way to the West, after a visit to the 
"Great White Father" in Washington), when that distin- 
guished warrior profifered to, and actually did, take the sub- 
ject of this sketch in his arms — but without a murmur. 
Educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, which he 
left Wednesday, April 25, 1888. Attended The Temple Col- 
lege of Philadelphia, Evening Department, Professional 
Course, Spring Term, 1891. Privately tutored in English, 
summer of 1891. Attended Prickett College of Commerce, 
Philadelphia, Monday, October 17, 1892 to Tuesday, Janu- 
ary 10, 1893. Entered the law office of Hood Gilpin, Es- 
quire, No. 615 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Monday, No- 
vember 25, 1889; and conceived the idea of studying law in 
the spring of 189 1. Took preliminary examinations for reg- 
istration as a student at law Saturday, December 14, 1895, 



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12-6 P. M. Registered as a student at law in the office of 
Hood Gilpin, Esquire, Monday, December 30, 1895 ; and filed 
papers in the Courts of Common Pleas and the Orphans' 
Court of Philadelphia County. Took final examinations for 
admission to the Bar, October 24, 25 and 26, 1899. Admitted 
to practice in the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia County, 
Saturday. November 25, iSgt) (just ten years after entering 
the law office of Hood CKipin, Esquire); in the Courts of Com- 
mon Pleas of Philadelphia County, Monday, November 27, 1899; 
in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Monday, April 14,1902; 
in all courts, on motion of Hood Gilpin, Esquire. Married 
Friday, August 8, 1902, between 6 and 6.30 P. M., Carrie 
Etta Avers (b. Thursday, February 20, 1873, at Walden, 
Orange county. New York), eighth and youngest daughter 
and eighth child of William Sans Ayers and Julia Weller, 
at No. 21 13 North Seventh street, Philadelphia, parsonage, 
by Rev. Charles II. Thomas, of Fiftieth Baptist Church, 
Seventh street and Susquehanna avenue, Philadelphia. Law- 
yer. Tutor in law. Address : 2624 North Bancroft street, 
Philadelphia. Has issue : 

BEATRICE ADELE TOMKINSON, b. Friday, September 30, 
1904, at No. 2624 North Bancroft street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

(7) SARAH ANN TOMKINSON. b. Monday, November 2, 
1840, at Pendleton. Lancashire, England. She remembers 
that, when a little ciiild, she saw Queen Victoria, who, at the 
time, was visiting Manchester. This was soon after Queen 
\'ictoria's accession to the throne. Married Isaac Landis 
(b. Friday, September 6, 1839, at Philadelphia), son and 
eldest child of Abraham Landis and Catharine Dennis, at 
No. 1409 Hanover street, Philadelphia, parsonage, by Rev. 
John G. Wilson (Presbyterian Church), Address: 
Has issue : 

THOMAS ISAAC LANDIS, b. Saturday, May 2, 1874, at No. 

Girard avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Married Thursday, April 
18, 1895, Martha May Tees (b. Saturday, May 26, 1877, at 
Philadelphia), daughter and eldest child of Philip Brockway 
Tees and Jane Bevans, at No. 2304 East York street, Phila- 
delphia, parsonage, by Rev. Franklin P. Bender, rector of 
St. Michael's German Lutheran Church (General Council), 
Philadelphia, .\ddress : . Had issue : Thomas, 

Sarah Ann and Philip Tees. 



Note. — Sarah Elizabeth Pilgrim was a niece of James Pilgrim, 
the celebrated actor and playwright, about whom it is said, in 
"Brown's American Stage," published in 1870: 

"James Pilgrim made his first appearance at the Arch Street 
Theatre, Philadelphia, in 1849, then under the management of the 
late William E. Burton, in the character of Paddy Miles, in his own 
farce of the "Limerick Boy," and established himself in public 



95 

favor. Since that period he has appeared with success in most of 
the large cities in the States, and his prohfic pen has furnished 
our stage with a number of highly successful pieces, which Mr. and 
Mrs. Barney Williams, Miss Maggie Mitchell, Miss Mary Devlin 
(afterwards Mrs. Edwin Booth), Mr. F. S. Chanfrau, the Flor- 
ences, and other eminent stars and artists have made specialties of, 
and which pieces still retain their position on the stage. In writing 
the successful comedy of "Irish Assurance and Yankee Modesty," 
he first introduced the features of the Irish boy and the Yankee 
girl to the American public. He is at present at the Front Street 
Theatre, Baltimore, Md." 

She was also a grandniece of Hugh Lindsay, the showman, 
about whom the said author in the same work wrote : 

"Hugh Lindsay — familiarly known as 'Old Hontz, the Clown' 
— was born in Philadelphia. April, 1804. First entered the show 
business, in 1819, with J. H. Myers and Lewis Mestayer, in Phila- 
delphia. Shortly afterwards entered the circus business. In 1828, 
he married Lydia Pauley. Died in Berks county, Pa." 

And a first cousin once removed of "Sam" Sanford, the old 
minstrel, about whom a daily newspaper had the following article 
the early part of this year ( 1904) : 

" 'SAM' SANFORD, OLD MINSTREL, DYING. 



'Well-Known Philadelphian Had Reputation of Being Best 
"End Man on Stage. 



"Made His Debut Here. 



"Sam Sanford, the old minstrel, is dying. News comes from 
Brooklyn that he has suffered a severe stroke of paralysis, and is 
now lying in a helpless condition in St. Peter's Hospital, in that 
city. Sanford is in his 84th year. The physicians fear that his old 
age will count against him, and his complete recovery is despaired 
of. * * * 

There are not many in the younger set of Philadelphians living 
to-day who can recall Sanford and his glorious days of minstrelsy. 
To the present generation Sanford is perhaps totally unknown. 
He has been retired from the stage for many years, and has only 
appeared in recent years at benefit performances, where his aged 
figure added a touch of sentiment to the show, and brought back 
to the old timers the prosperous days of the burnt-cork artist and 
the circus clown. 

Though a native New Yorker, Sanford has always been identi- 
fied with the Philadelphia stage, and it is perhaps in this city that 
he is best known. He has played a prominent part in local stage 
history, and half a century ago his figure was a prominent one on 
Chestnut street. 



96 

San ford was born in New York, January i, 1821. * * * 
In his childhood he showed cleverness and ability as an entertainer, 
and a strong fondness for the footlights. After appearing vyith 
much success in New York at private theatricals he came to Phila- 
delphia and made his professional debut as a singer at Dan New- 
man's ball-room, as some playhouses were known in those days. 
He met with a flattering reception, and a short time later joined 
hands with his uncle, Hugh Lindsay, who was playing at Allentown 
and Reading. 

With his uncle, Sanford appeared as a comic singer. But in 
1840, at the age of 19, Sanford adopted the profession in which 
he afterwards became so famous. He became a minstrel and for 
five years toured the East, winning laurels and dollars wherever 
he went. In 1845 Sanford went to England, being one of the first 
American entertainers to invade Europe, and there he repeated the 
success he scored in this country. On his return from England San- 
ford settled in Philadelphia, and on August i, 1853, opened the 
hall at Twelfth and Chestnut streets, which was known as Kor- 
ponay's ball-room. He remained here for some time, and at the end 
of another successful tour covering a period of three years he came 
back to Philadelphia and inaugurated the most memorable and 
successful run of minstrelsy ever given in this city. In 1857 San- 
ford gathered about him a company of tlie best minstrels to be 
found in the country and arranged to open at the 'Old Drury,' then 
under the management of 'Old Joe' Foster. A hitch occurred, and 
Sanford found himself without a playhouse. The old City Hall at 
Eighth and Chestnut streets had about that time been opened and 
Sanford succeeded in leasing the building for three weeks. He 
opened to an audience that literally packed the hall, and during 
the three weeks did a phenomenal business. 

In the later sixties he became affiliated with a circus, and for 
one season played the part of a clown. Minstrelsy, however, was 
his particular forte, and in 1870 he returned to the grand circle. 

Sam Sanford to-day holds the reputation of having been the 
best end man minstrelsy has ever produced. He remained on the 
stage up to his 70th year. * * * On his retirement he settled 
down to a quiet family life. * * * " 



Note. — Sam Sanford was the son of Richard Sanford and 
Mary Lindsay (sister of Jane Lindsay, the maternal grandmother 
of Sarah Elizabeth Pilgrim). .After Richard Sanford's . death, 
Marv Sanford married Thomas Coates, son of "Squire" Coates, 
for whom Coates street (now Fairmount avenue), Philadelphia, was 
named, and died four or five years ago at the age of 103 or 104 
years. I have been informed that Sam Sanford was the first actor 
to impersonate the character of "Uncle Tom" in Harriet Beecher 
Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." N. P. T. 



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(i) THOMAS LANDIS, b. Thursday, April 29, 1897, at No. 2927 
Rorer street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; d. Wednesday, July 7, 1897, 
same place. Buried in Belvue Cemetery, East Tioga street, 
corner of H, in sec. B, opposite lot No. 329. 

(2) SARAH ANN LANDIS, b. Monday, January 22, 1900, same 

place. 

(3) PHILIP TEES LANDIS, b. Monday, January 26, 1903, at 

No. 3130 Trenton avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 
(2) MARY ANN TOMKINSON, b. (after May, 

1802, the probable date of the death of Elizabeth Shakeshaft. 
Joseph Tomkinson's first wife), at , England; 

d. , at . Sister of the half- 

blood of Thomas Tomkinson (b. August 15, 1801). Married 
(i) David Swindles; (2) Richard Jepson. Lived in Mac- 
clesfield, Cheshire, England, circa 1846. It was at her home, 
here, that Joseph Tomkinson died about this time. After- 
wards lived in Patricroft, Lancashire. Had issue: Mary 
Ann (eldest), Sarah, Martha and Elizabeth (youngest). 
These children were all single when Thomas Tomkinson 
and his family emigrated to America in 1852. Descendants 
in Australia. 

(2) JANE TOMKINSON l' at 

; d. , at 

Is thought to have been a sister of Joseph Tomkinson, who 
married Elizabeth Shakeshaft. She may have been a sister 
of Elizabeth Shakeshaft, since it is only known that she was 
an aunt of Thomas Tomkinson, and she may have been an 
aunt on either the paternal or maternal side. Married John 
Roberts. Descendants in Baltimore, Maryland. Had issue: 
Matthew, John, William and Jennie. 

HARTLEY PEDIGREE. 

JOHN HARTLEY was born July 6, 1779. at 
England ; d. Tuesday, June 18, 1844, at No. 5 ( ?) Seddon street, 
Salford, Lancashire, England. His death is well remembered by 
his granddaughter, Sarah Landis (nee Tomkinson), who was at 
the time almost four years old. and his grandson, William Tom- 
kinson, who was then just past his sixth year. At one time in the 
latter part of the eighteenth, or in the beginning of the nine- 
teenth, century, he kept a toll-gate at Regent Road Bridge that 
crosses the old river Irwell, Salford, Lancashire. The first "ha- 
penny" (half-penny) collected there was paid to him, and was after- 
wards exhibited in a museum in London. At different times he 
had the following toll-gates: Blackfriars, Cross Lane and Regent 
Road Bridge. Toll-gates were in those days bid for. He was 
born in the third year following that during which the first United 
States flag was used by Washington at Cambridge ; two years after 
the adoption of the national colors of United States of America by 



08 

Congress; four years after the battle of Bunker Hill and Lexing- 
ton : eight years after the birth of Sir Walter Scott ; ten years after 
the beginning of ]\Iadam du Barry's power in France; twenty-seven 
years after the new style of year had been introduced in England. 
He was just past two years old when Lord Cornwallis surrendered 
to Washington at Yorktown ; four when the first balloon ascended 
from Lyons, France; ten at the beginning of the French Revolu- 
tion; fourteen at the time of the Reign of Terror, the power of 
Robespierre, the beheading of Louis XVL, and the execution of 
Marie Antoinette. Married Elizabeth ("Betty") Crossley (b. June 
ID, 1781). He had at least one brother, Benjamin Hartley, who 
owned silk and hosiery mills, and was at one time a local preacher, 
at Oldham, Lancashire, and who left issue. Had the following 
issue: Ann, Benjamin, Elizabeth, John. James, Elizabeth, Mary, 
Sarah, Alice, Edmond and Rachel. Buried probably at Rochdale, 
Lancashire, England. Elizabeth Crossley is buried, probably at 
Rochdale. 

(.1) ANN HARTLEY, b. Thursday, October 6, 1803, at Salford, 
Lancashire, England; d. (of typhoid fever) Tuesday, Decem- 
ber II, 1866, at 9.53 P. M.. at No. 2148 (now 2152) North 
Second street, Philadelphia, Pa. Married Thomas Tomkin- 
son (b. August 15, 1801). Buried in Mount Peace Cemetery, 
31st and Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia, in lot No. 346, sec. 
F, belonging to her third son and fifth child, Joseph Tom- 
kinson. Had issue: Elizabeth Shakeshaft, Elizabeth, John, 
Thomas, Joseph, William and Sarah Ann. 

(2) BENJAMIN HARTLEY, b. Thursday, February 7, 1805, 

probably at Salford, Lancashire, England. Police officer. 
Married. Had at least the following issue: Elizabeth, who 
died young, and Sarah. 

(3) ELIZABETH HARTLEY, b. Monday, March 2, 1807, prob- 

ably at Salford, Lancashire, England ; d. , 

probably same place. 

(4) JOHN HARTLEY, b. Tuesday, March 15, 1808, probably at 

Salford, Lancashire, England; d. circa 181 1 — run over by a 
horse and cart driven by an Irishman and killed while play- 
ing near the edge of the "flags" (pavement) in Salford, when 
but three years old. 

(5) JAMES HARTLEY, b. Friday, March 9, 1810, probably at 

Salford, Lancashire, England. Last heard of at Radcliffe, 
or Burv, Lancashire. 

(6) ELIZABETH FIARTLEY, b. Saturday, February 27, 1813, 

probably at Salford, Lancashire, England. Married 
Pickup, who was a pensioner of the British government, 
having served in the army. Last heard of at No. Sed- 

don street, Salford, Lancashire. Had at least a son, John 
Pickup, who enlisted in the British army, and went to 
Australia. 



99 

(7) MARY HARTLEY, b. Sunday, April 2, 1815, probably at 

Salford, Lancashire, England; d. (of consumption) Friday, 
August 30, 1833, at the home of her eldest sister, Ann (Mrs. 
Thomas Tomkinson), Manchester, Lancashire, having 
caught a cold while riding on the top of a stagecoach during 
a journey. 

(8) SARAH HARTLEY, b. Saturday, February i, 1817, proba- 

bly at Salford, Lancashire, England. Alarried George 
Cauley. Last heard of at Hulme, or Manchester, Lancashire- 
Had at least three children. 

(9) ALICE HARTLEY, b. Monday, June 28, 1819, probably at 

Salford, Lancashire, England. Married William Elkington. 
Joiner. Cabinet Maker. Last heard of at Hulme, Lan- 
cashire. Had issue. 

(10) EDMOND HARTLEY, b. Monday, April 30, 1821, proba- 

bly at Salford, Lancashire, England. At one time a super- 
intendent of The London & North Western Railroad, Eng- 
land. Last heard of at Camdentown, London. Married. 
Had at least the following children : John, Joseph and Au- 
gusta. John, the first child, married and had at least two 
children. 

(11) RACHEL HARTLEY, b. Thursday, May 29, 1823, probably 

at Salford, Lancashire, England. Married John G. Butcher, 
Physician. Last heard of, in 1853, at No. 12 Hanover street, 
Shudehill, Manchester, England. She had about eight or 
nine children, of whom Emily was the eldest. 

STATISTICS AND COINCIDENCES. 

[Calculated to September i, 1904 and based upon known rec- 
ords only.] 

Joseph Tomkinson i 

Known descendants of Joseph Tomkinson 99 

Jane Tomkinson (Roberts) . i 

Known descendants of Jane Tomkinson (Roberts) 4 

Known descendants of the parents of the above brother and sister 105 

Males 56 
Females 49 

105 

Known descendants of Joseph Tomkinson. 
Descendants in 2nd gen. (children) 

" " 3rd gen. (grandchildren) 

" " 4lh gen. (great-grandchildren) 

" " 5th gen. (great-great-grandchildren) 

" " 6th gen. (great-great-great-grantlchildren) 

99, of whom 66 are living 
Living 
Males 35 
Femalei 31 

-^ 66 

The above figures have since been changed by the birth of 
Beatrice Adele Tomkinson. daughter of Newton Powers Tomkin- 



2, of whom 


oare 


iving 


II, *' " 


3 " 


*' 


33." 


20 " 


" 


51." 


42 •• 




2, ** " 


I IS 





Note. — The children of Mary Ann Tomkinson (Swindles: 
Jepson) and their descendants (being unknown) are not considered 
in estimating the number of living descendants of Joseph Tomkin- 
son. 



L.ofC. 



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son, on Friday, September 30, 1904. The number of known de- 
scendants of Joseph Tomkinson is now 100, of whom 56 are or were 
males and 50 are or were females ; or 106 known descendants of the 
parents of Joseph and Jane Tomkinson. There are now 67 living 
descendants of Joseph Tomkinson, of whom 35 are males and 32 
females. 

Longest life: Thomas Tomkinson (b. August 15, 1801 ; d. Au- 
gust 20, 1880), 2nd gen., 79 years, 5 days. 

Shortest lives: Richard Longbottom (b. August 29, 1861), 
4th gen.; Elizabeth Taylor (b. June 4, 1884), 5th gen.; each of 
whom is said to have died the day of birth. 

THIRD GENERATION. 

Longest life: Elizabeth Tomkinson (Longbottom), [b. March 

16, 1827; d. December 28, 1902], 75 years, 9 months, 12 days. 

Shortest life: Elizabeth Shakeshaft Tomkinson (b. September 

17, 1825; d. June 5, 1828), 2 years, 8 months, 19 days. 

Oldest living: Joseph Tomkinson (b. February 10, 1836), 68 
years, 6 months 23 days. 

Youngest living: Sarah Ann Tomkinson (Landis), b. Nov. 2, 
1840, 63 years, 10 months. 

Marriages : 6. 

First marriage : John Tomkinson, circa 1853. 

Last marriage: Sarah Ann Tomkinson, , William Tom- 
kinson, March 28, 1884. [But not for the first time.] 

Largest families: Elizabeth Tomkinson (Longbottom), 10 
children, of whom 5 are living. [Said to have had twins on two 
other occasions, which would make 14 children in all.] Joseph 
Tomkinson, 10 children, of whom 8 are living. 

Smallest family: Sarah Ann Tomkinson (Landis), i child, who 
is living. 

First death : Elizabeth Shakeshaft Tomkinson, June 5, 1828. 

Last death: Elizabeth Tomkinson (Longbottom), December 
28, 1902. 

United ages : 359 years and upwards. 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

Longest life: Thomas Longbottom (b. November 23, 1853), 
50 years, 9 months, 9 days. 

Shortest life: Richard Longbottom (b. August 29, 1861), said 
to have died the day of birth. 

Oldest living: Thomas Longbottom (b. November 23, 1853). 

Youngest living: Samuel Tomkinson (b. February 12, 1882), 
22 years, 6 months, 20 days. 

Marriages : 19. [This does not include a plurality of marriage 
by any person.] 

First marriage: Thomas Longbottom, March 31, 1875. 



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Last marriage: Spencer William Tomkinson, September 25, 
1902, Mary Helen Tomkinson (Gamble), June 25, 1903. [But not 
for the first time.] 

Oldest person married : Thomas Longbottom, b. November 23, 

1853- 

Youngest person married : Edwin Rowsell Tomkinson, b. No- 
vember 3, 1878. [m. June 6, 1900.] 

Largest families : Thomas Longbottom, 6 children, all of whom 
are living; Samuel Longbottom, 6 children, all of whom are living; 
Frank Armstrong Tomkinson, 6 children, all of whom are living. 

Smallest families: George Longbottom, i child, who is living; 
Charles Harry Tomkinson, i child, who is living; Susanna Tomkin- 
son (Hersperger), i child, who is dead. 

Childless : Julia Ann Tomkinson (Stuckey), Edwin Rowsell 
Tomkinson, Newton Powers Tomkinson.* 

*This fact should be omitted, since a child (Beatrice Adele 
Tomkinson) was born Friday. September 30, 1904. 

First death : Clara Tomkinson, circa 1855. 

Last death: Olive Florence Tomkinson (Morrell). July 20, 
1902. [Only children of John Tomkinson, b. March 24, 1830.] 

United ages: 780 years and upwards. 

FIFTH GENERATION. 

Longest life: Lewis Longbottom (b. April 15, 1876), 28 years, 
4 months, 17 days. 

Shortest life : Elizabeth Taylor (b. June 4, 1884) , said to have 
died the day of birth. 

Oldest living: Lewis Longbottom (b. April 15, 1876). 

Youngest living: Julia Adelaide Tomkinson (b. June i, 1904).* 

*She is not the youngest at the time these records go to print, 
as Beatrice Adele Tomkinson was bom September 30, 1904. 

Marriages: 4. 

First Marriage: Mar>' Helen Peirce (Roberts), April i, 1896. 

Last marriage: Florence Knowles Cook (Norris), October 21, 

1903- 

Oldest person married : Richard Longbottom, b. January 5, 

1879. [m. June 13, 1900.] 

Youngest person married: Elizabeth Longbottom (Elliott), b. 
April 7, 1885. [m. July 16, 1901.] 

Families: Mary Helen Peirce (Roberts), i child, who is dead; 
Elizabeth Longbottom (Elliott), i child, who is living. 

Childless: Richard Longbottom, Florence Knowles Cook 
(Norris). 

First death : Howard Spencer Peirce, December 9, 1877. 

Last death: Howard Spencer Tomkinson, November 30, 1903. 

United ages : 459 years and upwards. 



I02 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



Harry Roberts, b. October 2.-J, 1897; d. May I, 1898. Wilhel- 
tnina May Elliott, b. December 24, 1903, who is living. 
United ages : i year, 4 months, and upwards. 

SUMMARY. 

Thomas Tomkinson, 2nd generation, 
Combined life in 3rd generation, 
" " " 4th generation, 

" " 5th generation, 

" " 6th generation, 

Total, 1678 



Years. 




79 and 


upwards 


359 " 


« 


780 " 


« 


459 " 


« 


I " 


« 



Note. — The children of Mary Ann Tomkinson (Swindles; 
Jepson) and their descendants (being unknown) are not considered 
in estimating combined life. Not considering Mary Ann Tomkin- 
son (Swindles: Jepson) and her descendants and Clara Tomkin- 
son, whose records are unknown, the remaining ninety-four (94) 
descendants of Joseph Tomkinson were born, married, and died 
during the different months of the year and on the different days of 
the week as follows : 



January, 

February, 

March, 

April, 

May, 

*June, 

July. 

♦August, 

September, 

October, 

November, 

December, 

. 94 32 25 

Births : More occurred in .August than in any other month — 
about one-seventh. 

Marriages : More occurred in June than in any other month — 
about one-fifth. 

Deaths: More occurred in August than in any other month — 
about one-fifth. 

Note. — About one-seventh of these events happened during 
August. 









No. of 


Births. 


Marriages. 


Deaths. 


Events. 


9 








9 


6 


4 


I 


II 


8 


3 





II 


7 


2 


1 


10 


7 


2 


3 


12 


7 


*6 


3 


16 


I 


2 


4 


7 


*I4 


3 


*5 


*22 


8 


3 


3 


14 


7 


3 


I 


II 


12 





2 


14 


8 


4 


2 


14 



Monday, 


12 


Tuesday, 


9 


♦Wednesday, 


14 


Thursday, 


13 


Friday, 


IS 


* Saturday, 


*i6 


* Sunday, 


IS 



103 

No. of 

Births. Marriages. Deaths. Events. 



I 


2 


IS 


3 





12 


*I2 


4 


*30 


7 


7 


27 


3 


2 


20 


2 


I 


19 


4 


*9 


28 



94 32 25 

Births : More occurred on Saturday than on any other day of 
the week — about one-sixth. 

Marriages: More occurred on Wednesday than on any other 
day of the week — about one-third. 

Deaths: More occurred on Sunday than on any other day of 
the week — about one-third. 

Note. — One-fifth of these events happened on Wednesday. 
[Pkirality of marriage by any person inchided in the above 
tables ; but there are other marriages and deaths, which are not 
considered for want of necessary information.] 

The necessary changes in the above figures, caused by the birth 
of Beatrice Adele Tomkinson on Friday, Sept. 30, 1904, have since 
been made. 

Thomas Longbottom, born on Wednesday, married on Wednesday. 
Elizabeth Longbottom (Elliott), born on Tuesday, married on 

Tuesday. 
Olive Florence Tomkinson (Morrell), married on Sunday (ist 

time), died on Sunday. 
Thomas Tomkinson (3d gen.), married on Thursday, died on 

Thursday. 
Mary Helen Tomkinson* (Gamble), born on Wednesday, mar- 
ried on Wednesday (ist time). 
Thomas Hartley Tomkinson.f born on Sunday, married on Sunday 

(3d time). 
Ruth Elma Tomkinson (Hollingsworth), born on Wednesday, mar- 
ried on Wednesday. 
Susanna Tomkinson (Hersperger), born on Tuesday, married on 

Tuesday (3d time). 
Joseph Tomkinson (3d gen.),^ born on Wednesday, first child 

born on Wednesday. 
Newton Powers Tomkinson,] | married on Friday, first child bom 

on Friday. 
Frank Armstrong Tomkinson, born on Friday, married on Friday, 

first child born on Friday. 
Thomas Landis, married on Thursday, first child born on Thursday 
*Husband (2d) born on Wednesday. 
fTwo children bom on Sunday, 
t One other child born on Wednesday. 
1 1 Noted since September i, 1904. 



io4i 

William Tomkinson, b. March 28, 1838; m. (2nd time) March 
28, 1884. 

Thomas Tomkinson (3rd gen.), b. September 17, 1833; m. 
September 11, 1856. 

George Longbottom, b. June 29, 1864; m. June 5, 1888. 

Henry Tripple Tomkinson, b. December 5, 1870; m. December 
10, 1891. 

Eliza Howell Berry Tomkinson (Lawrence), b. August 10, 
1872; m. August I, 1900. 

Marv Helen Peirce (Roberts), b. November i, 1878; m. April 
I, 1896. ' 

Thomas Hartley Tomkinson, b. March 29, 1863; m. (3rd 
time). May 29, 1898. 

Susanna Tomkinson (Hersperger), b. March 27, 1866; m. 
(3rd time), August 27, 1901. 

Thomas Tomkinson (2nd gen.), b. August 15, 1801 ; d. August 
20, 1880. 

Sarah Jane Tomkinson, b. August 17, 1864; d. August 3, 1865. 

Samuel Tomkinson, b. August 2, 1869 ; d. August 5, 1869. 

Howard Spencer Tomkinson, b. August 30, 1903; d. Novem- 
ber 30, 1903. 

Married by same minister : — 

Henry Tripple Tomkinson, Frank Armstrong Tomkinson, 
Samuel Longbottom, by Rev. William H. Burrell. 

Eliza Howell Berry Tomkinson, Edwin Rowsell Tomkinson, by 
Rev. Charles H. Rorer. 

Susanna Tomkinson (3rd time), Newton Powers Tomkinson, 
Spencer William Tomkinson. by Rev. Charles H. Thomas. 

The persons representing the first and last deaths in the 3rd 
generation were the eldest and second children of Thomas Tom- 
kinson of the 2nd generation, both named Elizabeth. 

The first and last deaths in the 4th generation were the only 
children of John Tomkinson, third child of Thomas Tomkinson 
of the 2nd generation. 

The persons representing the first and last deaths in the 5th 
generation were the eldest children of Mary Helen Tomkinson (the 
eldest) and Spencer William Tomkinson (the youngest), children 
of Thomas Tomkinson, fourth child of Thomas Tomkinson of the 
2nd generation, both named Howard Spencer. 



Note. — Newton Powers Tomkinson entered the law offices 
of Hood Gilpin, Esq., on November 25. 1889, and was admitted to 
the Bar on November 25, 1899. The first case he had was against 
a man whose surname was Newton; the second against another 
wnose surname was Powers; both hearings before a magis- 
trate. Although he has since represented a Tomkinson (who, 
however, was not the third client), the coincidence is not complete. 



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BIRTHS. MARRIAGES. i DEATHS. 



GENEALOGY 



-OF THE- 



FAMILY OF JOSEPH TOMKINSON, 

BORN PREVIOUS TO 1798, 
IN STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND. 



JOSEPH TOMKINSON, of Staffordshire, England, was 
born at ; d. circa 1845 (when his fourth son, 

Andrew Stevenson Tomkinson, was sixteen years old), at Hanley, 
near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Married Elizabeth Steven- 
son (b. , at ; d. , 
1861, at Stoke-on-Trent), of Staffordshire. These Tomkinson and 
Stevenson families were pottery manufacturers; the Stevenson 
family being among the early potters of Staffordshire. Judging 
from her appearance in two daguerreotypes Elizabeth Stevenson 
Tomkinson must have been over eighty years old at the time of 
her death. Had issue : Henry, Joseph, James and Andrew Steven- 
son. 

(i) HENRY T0MK1N50N, b. Wednesday, April 28, 1819, at 
Stokes-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England ; d. , 

same place. Married Martha , (b. Thursday, 

November 12, 181 2, at ; d. , 

at ). He was a potter of large exper- 

ience. Was often sent by prominent manufacturers to 
foreigh countries to develop and manage new potteries; 
to Rome, to Greece (Athens), to Ireland, and to Bogota, 
Colombia, South America. He was manager of Tomkin- 
son & Co.'s pottery [in which his brother, Andrew Steven- 
son Tomkinson, Joseph Phillips and he were jointly inter- 
ested (the first being the principal owner)] at Stoke-on- 
Trent, Staffordshire, for five or more years. Had issue: 
Anne and Elizabeth. 

(1) ANNE TOMKINSON, b. , at 

(2) ELIZABETH TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, September 20, 

1842. at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Married 
, William Edward Pollard (b. , at 

: d. Tuesday, September 21, 1875, at ; 

who was probablv of Cornish extraction, since 
"By Tre,'Pol and Pen 
Ye may know the Cornish men.") 
at Address : Blackpool, Lancashire, Eng- 

land. Has issue : Margaret Tomkinson and Florence Eliza- 
beth. 
(i) MARGARET TOMKINSON POLLARD, b. Wednesday. 
February 19, 1873, ^^ Burslem, Staffordshire, England. 
Came to America when six years old, and was adopted by 
her uncle, Andrew Stevenson Tomkinson. Married Wed- 
nesday, November 8, 1893, William Tyndale* (b. Sunday, 
August 28, 1859, at Manheim, Lancaster county. Pa. ; with 
firm of A. H. Wirz & Co., Manufacturers of Metal Goods, 
917 Cherry street, Philadelphia), third son of Harold Tyn- 
dale and Annie Cartlidge, at No. 4718 Chester avenue, 
Philadelphia, Pa. (the home of Andrew Stevenson Tom- 
kinson), by Rev. James Stuart Dickson, pastor of Woodland 



no 

Presbyterian Church, Forty-second and Pine streets, Phila- 
delphia. Address : Cynwyd, Montgomery county, Pa. Has 
issue : 

(1) WILLIAM HAROLD TYXDALE, b. Thursday, September 

6, 1894, at Media, Delaware countv. Pa. 

(2) MARGARET HILL TYxXDALE, b. Monday, November 16. 

1896, at Philadelphia, Pa. 
(2) FLORENCE ELIZABETH POLLARD, b. Saturday, May 
9, 1874. at Burslem. Staffordshire, England. L'nmarried 
Address : Blackpool, Lancashire, England. 
(2) JOSEPH TOriKINSON, b. Sunday, May 25, 1823, at Stoke 
on-Trent, Staffordshire, England ; d. Monday, January 23 
1893, same place. Married Eliza Bennet ( b. Sunday 
April 18, 1824, at Stoke-on-Trent), at . Potter 

Had issue: Mary, Elizabeth, Andrew, Martha and Joseph 

(1) MARY TOMKINSON. b. Thursday, March 13, 1851, at 

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Married 

Charles Deakin (b. , at ), at 

. Address: Tunstall, Staffordshire, England 
Has issue : 

(i) ANDREW TOMKINSON DEAKIN, b. , at 

(2) MARTHA DE.\KIN. b. , at 

(3) JOSEPH DEAKIN. b. , at 

(4) HAROLD DEAKIN, b. , at 

(2) ELIZABETH TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, May 31, 1853, at 

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Unmarried. Ad- 
dress: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. 

(3) ANDREW TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, February 11, 1855, at 

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Engiand ; d. Friday, May 23, 
1902, at Birmingham, England. Married , 1878, 

Fanny Hope Newbold (b. , at ; d. 

May , 1902. at ), of Longton, Stafford- 

shire. Lived in Philadelphia for a short 
when he was employed by his uncle, 
Tomkinson. Lived at Birmingham, E 
Salesman (for groceries). Had issue: 
(i) MARGARET FANNY TOMKINSON, 

(2) ELLA ANNIE TOMKINSON, 

(3) LILLIAN HOPE TOMKINSON, 

(4) GEORGE COOPER TOMKINSON, 

(5) PATTIE TOMKINSON, 



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his youth, 


Andrew 


Stevenson 


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*NoTE. — William Tyndale is a collateral descendant of William 
Tyndale, the early translator aiKi printer of the Bible. He is also 
a nephew of General Hector Tyndale. His maternal grandfather 
was Charles Cartlidge, of Sneyd Green, Burslem, Staffordshire, 
England, a practical potter and manufacturer, and founder of the 
Green Point (Long Island), New York, Porcelain Works in 1848. 



Ill 

(4) MARTHA TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, March 24, i860, at 
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Married Tuesday, 
March 13, 1883, Robert WilHam Reynolds (b. Sunday, 
March 13, 1859, at London, England; of the firm of Rey- 
nolds & Co., Music Publishers and Exporters, 13 Berners 
street, London, England), at Stoke-on-Trent. Xo children. 
.Address : 63 Parkhurst Road, London, England. 

(5j JOSEPH TOMKIXSOX, b. Friday, June 29, 1866, at Stoke- 
on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. L'nmarried. Address: 
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. 

(3) JAMES TOMKINSON, b. , at Stoke-on-Trent, 

Staffordshire, England; d. (at the age of 55 

years), at Trenton. Xew Jersey. Married , Sarah 

English (b. .at ), at 

Potter. Private in the Royal Artillery ; detailed to the first 
Zulu war ; transferred to the Crimea ; was made a sergeant 
after the battle of Sebastopol ; lieutenant ist Xew Jersey 
Cavalry. Xo children. 

'(4)] ANDREW STEVENSON TOMKINSON, b. Wednesday, 
September 2, 1829, at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Eng- 
land. Came to .America in September, 1849, having crossed 
the Atlantic in the "Sea Queen" from Liverpool, and, after 
a rough voyage of sixty-three days, landed in Xew York. 
[Mr. Tomkinson kept a very interesting diary during this 
passage.] Upon his arrival in Xew York, he visited his 
maternal uncle, Joseph Stevenson. Xo. 270 Pearl street, with 
whom he resided for a short time. .Afterwards removed to 
Philadelphia, where he found employment with Benedict 
Dorsey & Son, 209 Xorth Third street, and remained with 
them about three years. Later, was employed by the firm of 
Tyndale & Mitchell, with whom he was identified for an- 
other period of three years. Finally, by George Hammers- 
ley, whom he succeeded in business, representing various 
pottery manufacturers of his native place and of Trenton, 
X. J., and Pittsburgh and Wheeling glassmakers. Also 
proprietor of china stores at 4th and Spruce streets and at 
1813 Market street, Philadelphia. At one time interested 
in a pottery at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which was 
managed by his eldest brother, Henry Tomkinson. Retired 
from business in 1897. Married ( i ) Thursday, February 
17' 1853, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (b. May , 1823, at Lam- 
bertville, Hunterdon county, Xew Jersey : d. Tuesday, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1874, at Philadelphia, Pa.), daughter of Andrew 
Kirkpatrick (son of Alexander Kirkpatrick, of Derry, Ire- 
land, linen manufacturer, and Margaret X'elson,* who set- 



*Mrs. Margaret Nelson Kirkpatrick bought a large tract of land at Latn- 
bertviile, N. J., with the intention of raising flax and making linen, but the ad- 
venture failed. Many of her family and descendants are buried in the old 
churchyard of the Lambertville Presbyterian Church. 



112 

tied at Lambertville, N. J., after her husband's death, having 
come to America in 1801) and Phillipa Githens (b. at The 
Meeting of the Waters, Vale of Avoca, daughter of Dean 
Arthur Githens, of the county of Wexford, Ireland, who had 
under his jurisdiction the parishes of Wexford, Wicklow, 
Carlow and Kildare, Ireland, and Elizabeth Sommerville), 
at First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, corner 7th 
and Locust streets, by Rev. Albert Barnes; (2) Sunday, 
November 18, 1866, Annie Kirkpatrick (b. Tuesday, Janu- 
ary 6, 1835, at Lambertville, Hunterdon county, New Jer- 
sey), sister of his first wife, at No. 4718 Chester avenue, 
Philadelphia, by Rev. Herman Duhring. [Andrew Steven- 
son Tomkinson does not recall any kindred outside of Staf- 
fordshire. He remembers, however, an uncle Hartley (see 
Hartley records herein), who was a ringer of chimes at the 
Hanley Church, Hanley. Staffordshire; his recollection be- 
ing that of going witli him on many occasions, when a child, 
to see him ring the chimes.] Has issue: Elizabeth, Mar- 
garet Skillman and Joseph, 
(i) ELIZABETH TOMKINSON, b. , 1854, at Phila- 

delphia, Pa. : d. in infancv, aged about 20 months. 

(2) MARGARET SKILLM.\N TOMKINSON, b. Monday, 

April 14, 1856, at Philadelphia, Pa. Married Wednesday, 
.April 30, 1884, William Haward Hill [b. Saturday, Decem- 
ber 13, 185 1, at Xorristown, Montgomery county. Pa. (Edi- 
tor of Morning News, Wilmington, Del.)], son of Henry C. 
Hill and Sarah Haward, at First Unitarian Church, loth 
and Locust streets, Philadelphia, by Rev. William H. Fur- 
ness. No children. Address : 501 West Fifth street, Wil- 
mington, Delaware. 

(3) JOSEPH TOMKINSON, b. Tuesday, November 17, 1857. 

at Philadelphia, Pa. After leaving school, he engaged in 
the glass business. Manager of National Glass Company, 
Philadelphia. Married Wednesday, April 20, 1887, Emilie 
Augusta Surgissonf (b. Sunday, January 17, 1858, at Rock- 
ville, Chester county. Pa.), third daughter of Dr. James 
Madison Surgisson and Anne Buchwalter, of Wheeling, 
West Virginia, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, by Rev. 
Dr. Edward A. Foggo, rector. [Mrs. Joseph Tomkinson 

fMrs. Emilie A. Surgisson Tomkinson is a descendant of 
Francis Buchwalter, a political and religious refugee, who fled from 
Germany to this country in 1720. He was the earliest settler upon 
that tract of land where Phoenixville now stands, having bought 650 
acres of land from David Lloyd. 

She is a great-granddaughter of Ruth Schbnholtz Buchwalter, 
who was distinguished in local history for bravery during the American 
Revolution. 



113 

graduated from The Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1886.] Address: Aldan, Delaware county, Pa. 

T-Tqc 15SUC * 

(i) EMILY SYDNEY TOMKINSON, b. Friday, June 22, 1888, 
at Philadelphia, Pa. 

(2) FRANCIS BUCHWALTER TOMKINSON. b. Tuesday, 

February 4, 1890, same place. 

(3) PHILIP kiRKPATRICK TOMKINSON, b. Saturday, Au- 

gust 29, 189 1, at Lansdowne, Delaware county, Pa. 

(4) ANNE ISABEL BUCHWALTER TOMKINSON, b. Satur- 

day, January 7, 1899. at Upper Darby township, Delaware 
county. Pa. 

[While the proof of this work was being corrected, the author 
received the following additional information regarding Henry and 
Joseph Tomkinson, sons of Joseph Tomkinson who married Elizabeth 
Stevenson.] 

HENRY TOMKINSON, the eldest son, d. Tuesday, October 
23, 1683, aged 64 years. He married Martha Dayson, b. Thursday, 
November 12, 18 12, at Chelton, Staffordshire, England; d. Wednes- 
day, December 4, 1889, at No. i Mclntyre street, Burslem, Stafford- 
shire. He had three children: Sarah Ann (not "Anne", as the rec- 
ords herein indicate), Elizabeth and James Henry. 

(1) SARAH ANN TOMKINSON, b. Sunday, June 21, 1840, at 

North wood, Hanley, Staffordshire, England. Married May, 
1863, William Valentine Bloor (d. Monday, January i, 1900), 
at St. Gregory's Church, Longton, Staffordshire. Address: 5 
Ludwall road, Normacot, Longton, .Staffordshire, England. 
Has issue; Henry Tomkinson, Edgar Howe, Elizabeth Alice, 
Mary and Martha Isabella. 

(2) HENRY TOMKINSON BLOOR, b. Thursday, .September 21, 

1865, at Newtown, Fenton, Staffordshire, England. Married 
September , 1880, Cissy Wareham at Dresden Church, 
Longton, Staffordshire. Potters' Printer. Address: 14 Berd- 
more street, Fenton, Staffordshire, England. 

(3) EDGAR HOWE BLOOR, b. Wednesday, September 2, 1868, 

at . Married November , 1893, Florence Huson at 

Congregational Church, Longton, Staffordshire. Clothing Club 
Manager. Address: 44 Edith street. West Bromwich, Staf- 
fordshire, England. Has issue: Florence Milicent and Edgar 
Wilfred. 

(1) FLORENCE MILICENT BLOOR, b. , 18^8, at No. 

Berdmore street, Fenton, Staffordshire, England. 

(2) EDGAR WILFRED BLOOR, b. ., 1904, at No. 44 Edith 

street. West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England. 

(3) ELIZABETH ALICE BLOOR, b. Friday, May 29, 1874, at 

Heron Cross, Fenton, Staffordshire. Married Sunday, January 



114 

26, 1902, William Walters (Estate and Commission Agent), 
widower, at Wesleyan Chapel, Longton, Staffordshire. Ad- 
dress: 16 Broade street, Fe'nton, Staffordshire, England. 

(4) MARY BLOOR, b. Tuesday, October 26, 1875, at Heron 

Cross, Fenton, Staffordshire, England. Married Sunday, May 
31, 1903, Harry Smith (Commission Agent), at Wesleyan 
Chapel, Longton, Staffordshire. Address: iS Broade street, 
Fenton, .Staffordshire, England. 

(5) MARTHA ISABELLA BLOOR, b. Thursday, August 9, 1877, 

at Fenton, Staffordshire, England. Spinster. Pottery Deco- 
rator. Address: 5 Ludwall road, Normacot, Longton, Staf- 
fordshire, England. 

(2) ELIZABETH TOMKINSON, second daughter of Henry Tom- 

kinson (d. 1883) married William Edmund (not lidward) 
Pollard (b. Burnley, Lancashire, England) Thursday, May 9, 
1872, at Shelton, Staffordshire. Mr. Pollard was a Solicitor's 
Clerk. He died at the age of 27 years. Her daughter, 
MARGARET TOMKINSON POLLARD, was born at No. 
21 Borner street, Hanley (not Bursleni), Staffordshire. 
The other daughter, 

FLORENCE ELIZABETH POLLARD, was born Thursday, 
May 7 (not May 9), 1874, at Market Place, Burslem, Stafford- 
shire, England. 

(3) JAMES HENRY TOMKINSON, .son of Henry Tomkinson 

(d. 1883), was born Wednesday, .March 24, 1847 ; d. Wednes- 
day, September 4, 18^0. 

JOSEPH TOMKINSON, second son of Joseph Tomkinson 
who married Elizabeth Stevenson, was born in Hope street, Hanley, 
Staffordshire, England, 1823; d. Saturday, January 21 (not 23), 
1893, in Liverpool road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 



"5 
BIRTHS. , MARRIAGES. DEATHS. 



"7 

NOTES AND CLUES OF OTHER TOMKINSONS. 
[Preserved for future investigation.] 
Tomkinson, gentleman, of Harriets Hays, county of 



Staffordshire, England, married Elizabeth Hill, second daughter 
of Edward Hill (b. February, 1725), who married Margaret Per- 
kins, and granddaughter of Anthony Hill, Esq. (b. October 28, 
1690), of Pepperhill, England. 



The records of this Hill family go back to the Hylls who were 
in Hill-Cromb, 27 Edward I. (1299). 

[See Hill, of Stallington Hall, in Burke's History of The 
Commoners.] 



Tomkinson, who was over 80 years old at the time 

of his death, had at least the following issue: Samuel, William, 
Jabez and Mary. 

Samuel Tomkinson died in .August, 1900, in his 85th year. 
His people lived in Liverpool and in different parts of Cheshire. 
In his early business life he was a banker in Liverpool. At one 
time (circa 1848) managing director of The North and South 
Wales Bank, Liverpool. Left Liverpool for Australia in 1848 to 
manage the affairs of The Bank of Australia. Manager of this 
bank for 30 years ( ?). During the years 1878-98 he was in Parlia- 
ment the most of the time. Married (i) into the Spool family 
of Worthington — a daughter of a well-known doctor. There were 
two daughters of this marriage, both having married army officers. 

One is still living, at Victoria, B. C. Married (2) Birch, 

of a well-known family in Cheshire, the head of which is Sir 

W , a member of the Balfour Ministry-. He had at least 

nine (9) children, of whom the eldest son is George Arnold Tom- 
kinson, Esq. (b. October, 1859), Lawyer, whose address is "Rus- 
settings," Westfield Park, Pinner, England. 

William Tomkinson, the brother of Samuel Tomkinson, at one 
time owned a radical paper. Lived at Caernarvon, North Wales. 
Died circa 1898, having left a large family. 



Bradford's Manchester Journal for October 9, 1841 records 
the fact that stone used in the erection of a chapel in Liverpool was 
from the quarry of Mr. Tomkinson, of Liverpool. 



There is a book entitled "Sarah Robinson, Agnes Weston, 
Mrs. Meredith (World's Workers)," by E. M. Tomkinson (Eng- 
lish). 



The family of Tomkinson (Thomas Tomkinson, Esq., of 
Knightley, Staffordshire, b. circa 1620, and his descendants) is 



ii8 



mentioned at length in "Thomas Helsby's Ormerod's Cheshire," 
\'ol. 3, pp. 241. 244, 348, 349, 351, 357, 480 and 481. [Also refer 
to the Index.] 

Also "Ormerod's Cheshire and Lancashire Families." 

"Lieut. — Col. (brv. Col.) Henry Tomkinson, half pay, late 61 st 
Foot, 5th Dragoon Guards and ist Dns. (44 Green Street, W.), 
h. p. '96, Brt.-Col. '95, Lieut.-Col. '91." 

"Lieut. Edward Launcelot Tomkinson, Royal Navy, Karro- 
katta (Australia)." 

"Lieut. Wilfred Tomkinson, Royal Navy, Fame (China)." 
[The above information is to be found in Whitaker's Naval 
and Military Directory and Indian Army List for I9(X).] 



Lieut. H. A. Tomkinson. ist Royal Dragoons. [Query: Is 
this person Lieut. Col. Henry Tomkinson, referred to in Whitaker's 
Directory above?] 

2nd Lieut. C. W. Tomkinson, Earl of Chester's Imperial 
Yoemanry. 

2nd Lieut. H. Tomkinson, Queen's Own, Worcestershire 
Hussars. 

[Query: Are Lieut. H. A. Tomkinson and 2nd Lieut. C. W. 
Tomkinson the sons of Hon. Lieut.-Col. and Major James Tom- 
kinson (b. 1840) and grandsons of Lieut.-Col. William Tom- 
kinson (b. 1790) referred to in the records of Thomas Tomkinson 
(b. circa 1620), of Knightley, Staffordshire, as Henry Archdale 
Tomkinson and Charles William Tomkinson?] 



Mrs. E. Blackerhall Tomkinson, 
Nantwich. Cheshire, Eng. 

Mrs. Mary Tomkinson, 
I Hartington Street, 
Queen's Park Road. 
Handbridge, Cheshire, Eng. 

Mrs. Margaret Tomkinson 
(Provision Dealer), 
38 Dock Street, 
Ellesmere. Cheshire, Eng. 

Joseph Tomkinson 
(Shopkeeper), 

31 The Barony, 
Nantwich, Cheshire, Eng. 

Ambrose Tomkinson (Farmer), 
Kermincham, 
Congleton, Cheshire, Eng. 



Joseph Tomkinson, 
Twemlow, 

Crew. Cheshire, Eng. 

Edward George Henry Tom- 
kinson (Estate and Insur- 
ance Agent), 
166 Edleston Road, 

Crew, Cheshire, Eng. 

John Tomkinson 
(Confectioner), 
3 Woodchurch Road, 
West Side Oxton Road, • 
Oxton, Cheshire, Eng. 

Horatio Tomkinson, 
Holmes Chapel, 

Crew, Cheshire, Eng. 



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Frederick Charles Tomkinson, 
53 Lea Road, 

Egremont, Cumberland, 
Eng. 

Miss Tomkinson, 
45 Chestnut Grove, 
Tranmere, Birkenhead, 

Cheshire, Eng. 

Miss Tomkinson, 
West Ward, 
Great Meots, 
Hoylake, S. W., 

Cheshire, Eng. 

Edward Tomkinson, 
64 Beam Street, 
Nantwich, Cheshire, Eng. 

Frank Tomkinson (Horse DTr) 
Broomhall, 

Cheshire, Eng. 



William Tomkinson, 
Shawcroft Hall, 
Holmes Chapel, 

Crew, Cheshire, Eng. 

Tames Tomkinson, 

19 Broad Street, 

Crewe, Cheshire, Eng. 

Walter Tomkinson (Shopk'p'r). 
382 Station Road, 
Winsford, R. W. S., 

Cheshire, Eng. 

\Mlliam Henr\' Tomkinson 
(Plumber), 
131 Welch Row, 

Chester, Eng. 

H. J. Tomkinson (Piano Deal- 
er and Tuner), 
506 King Street, 

Wilmington, Del. 



I 



i 



INDEX. 



[Females indexed according to maiden name; marriage name in 
parenthesis.] 

A. Beaumont, John, Lord, 39. 

Bell, Charles Tomkinson, 63. 
Frederick Planner, 63. 
Robert Walter, 63. 
Walter, 63. 
William Henn,', 63. 
Bennet, . Eliza (Tomkinson), 

no. 
Bennie. Alice Annie. 61. 

David Gibson, 61. 
Benton, Mary Isabelle (Tom- 
kinson), 45. 
Berry, Sarah (Sandy), 88. 
Bertie. Montague, Earl of Lind- 
say, 39. 
Bevans, Jane (Tees). 94. 
Birch, ..'.., (Tomkinson), II7- 
Blackledge. Mary (Norreys), 

40. 
Blair. Austin. Governor of 
Michigan, 37. 
Frederick Johnson, 37. 
Blessing, Johanna (Towne), 

38. 
Booth, Edwin, 95. 

Margaret (Malkin), 69. 

Martha, 61. 
Brace, Arthur Craig, 37- 
Brocklebank, Betsy (Norris), 



Abingdon, Lord, 39. 
Adams, F. T., 70. 
Aggart, Hannah (Tomkinson), 
69. 

,69. 

Aldrich, Sarah (Tomkinson), 

47- 
Obed, 47. 
Allen, Marilla Church (Tom- 
kinson), 45. 
Anderson, Margaret Vennal 

(Mays), 81. 
Angsel, Marie (Hugue), 82. 
Appelbee, Kate (Tomkinson), 
70. 
Thomas, 70. 
Ashley, Charles, 62. 
Emma, 62. 
Eunice, 62. 
Fanny, 61. 
John, 61. 
Mary, 62. 
Samuel, 62. 
William, 62. 
Atkinson, Rev. Canon, 20. 

Henry Noel, 20. 
Ayers, Carrie Etta (Tomkin- 
son), 94. 
William Sans, 94. 

B. 

Bachman, Elizabeth (Gamble). 
84. 

Bailey ( ?) (Tomkin- 
son), ^^. 

Bayley, Margaret (Tomkinson), 

17- 

Mary (Tomkinson), 17. 

M thew, 17. 



40. 
Brooke, Lucile Diana Mauntm 
(Tomkinson), 21. 
Sir Richard, 21. 
Major-Gen. Thomas, 21. 
Brown, .\rold William, 50. 

George R., 50. 
Browning, Mary (Towne), 38. 
Brjans, Rev. J. L., 21. 
Buchwalter, Anne (Surgisson), 
112. 



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Bullock. Edward, 93. 

Elsie, 93. 

Emma, 93. 
Burk, Sarah (Tierney), 80. 
Bush, Grace Hunter, 36. 

Mildred Elizabeth, 36, 53. 

Samuel Claude, 36. 
Butcher, Emily, 99. 

Dr. John G., 91, 99. 

C. 

Calcutta, Bishop of, 18. 
Cartlidge, Annie (Tyndale), 
109. 
Charles, 1 10. 
Cartwright, Eliza (Tomkinson), 

69. 
Carver. Margaret (LeFevre),86 
Cauley, George, 99. 
Chanfrau, F. S., 95. 
Chappell, Alzina Huldah (Tom- 
kinson), 46. 
Clarke, J. A., 23. 
Theodore, 41. 

41- 

Cline. Elizabeth (Moore), 85. 
Coates. Squire, 96. 

Thomas, 96. 
Coleridge. Mary Rennell (Cot- 
ton-Jodrell), 19. 

William R.. 19. 
Cook. Florence Knowles (Nor- 
ris). 83, lOT. 

Timothy. 83. 
Cooper. Caroline (Lawrence). 89 

T. Fenimore. 89, 90. 

John Hunter, 41. 

Robert McSherry, 41. 
Cotton, Very Rev. George, 17. 

Bishop George Edward 
Lynch. 18. 

Capt. Thomas D'Avenant, 
18. 

Ursula Mary (Atkinson), 

16, 20. 



Cotton-Jodrell, Dorothy Lynch, 

19 • 
Col. Edward Thomas Dave- 

nant, 16, 19, 24. 

George Henry Coleridge, 

19- 
Olive Harriet, 19. 
Coxe, Sarah, 40. 
Crosslev, Elizabeth (Hartley), 
78,' 98. 

D. 

Dacre. Lord, 39. 

Mary (Norreys), 39. 
Darlington, Anne (Tomkinson), 

17- 
John, 17. 
Davis. Esther Ann (Tomkin- 
son). 82. 
Joseph Kenney, 82. 
Sarah (Tomkinson). 35. 
Deakin, Andrew Tomkinson, 
no. 
Charles, no. 
Harold, no. 
Joseph, no. 
Martha, no. 
Dean of Chester, 17. 
declare, Gilbert, Earl of Clare, 

39- 
Dennis. Catharine (Landis), 94. 

De Vere. Lady Jane, 39. 
Devlin, Mary (Booth), 95. 
Dorman. Dorothy (Towne), .38. 
Dowland. Samuel, 83. 

Susanna Featherman (Tom- 
kinson), 83. 
E. 
Earl, Mabel Alice (Tomkinson), 

45, 
Earl of Aldborough, John. 3d, 
18. 
of Berkshire, 39. 
of Burleigh, 22. 



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Earl of Clare, 39. 

of Derby, 22. 

of Dysart, Lyonel, 18. 

of Haddington, 24. 

of Lancaster, Henry, 39. 

of Lindsay, 39. 

of Oxford, 39. 
Egerton, Frances (Tarleton), 

20. 

John, 20. 

Gen. Richard, 21. 
Eldridge, Sarah Ann (Tomkin- 
son), 41. 

William, 41. 
Elkington, William, 99. 
Elliott, Alexander, 80. 

George Alexander, 80. 

Wilhelmina [Willie] May, 

80, 102. 
English, Sarah (Tomkinson), 

III. 
Ereneis, Alice (Norreys), 39. 
Estey, Isaac, 38. 

F. 

Farrington, Dorothy (Norreys), 

39- 
Featherman, Sarah (Dowland), 

84. 
Fenner, John Felix, 87. 

Maggie Genevieve (Tom- 
kinson), 87. 
Ferguson, Harriet Ann (Elli- 
ott), 80. 
Ferry, G— D., 18. 

Florence, , 95. 

Foster, Joseph, 96. 

Thomas George, 70. 
Foulkrod, George. 91. 

Sadie Keller (Tomkinson), 
90. 
France, Thomas, 23. 



Gamble, Washington Fish, 84. 
William Baker, 84. 



Gilpin, Hood, 93, 94, 104. 
Githens, Dean Arthur, 112. 

Phillipa (Kirkpatrick), 112. 
Gore, Lucy (Tomkinson), 16, 21. 

Ralph, 21. 
Grigg, James, 29. 

Sarah (Tomkinson), 29. 

H. 

Hagney, Sarah Ann (Peirce), 
84. 

Halliday, John Delap, 18. 

Hammersley, George, ill. 

Hanes, Catherine Sophia (Wal- 
lace), 85. 

Harrington, Perceval, 39. 

Hartley, Alice (Elkington). 98, 
99. 
Ann (Tomkinson), 77, 78, 

91. 98. 99- 
Augusta, 99. 
Benjamin, 91, 98. 
Edmond, 91, 98, 99. 
Elizabeth, 91, 98. 
James, 91, 98. 
John. 78, 91, 97, 98, 99. 
Joseph. 99. 
Mary, 98, 99. 
Rachel (Butcher), 91, 98. 

99- 
Sarah (Cauley), 91, 98, 99. 

Hatton. Sir Christopher, 22. 
Haward. Sarah (Hill), 112. 
Hayhurst, Col. Charles-Hoskin- 

France, 23. 
Hay man. Laura Elizabeth (Tom- 
kinson), 42. 
Hendry, Mary (Tomkinson), 

64. 
Hennessy, Sir John Pope, 20. 
Hersperger, Adam, 86. 
Edward Ackly, 86. 
Hescott, Donald Gray, 49. 

Rev. Howard John. 49. 
Heslor, Lovina (Tomkinson), 
48. 



124 



Hill, Anthony, 117. 

Edward, 117. 

Elizabeth (Tomkinson), 
117. 

Henry C, 112. 

William Haward, 112. 
Hillyard, George Walter, 20. 

Rev. Walter, 20. 

, 20. 

Hitner, Pauline (Wunderlich), 

90. 
Hoare, Richard, 21. 
Holbert, Mary (Naylor), 93. 
Holford, Emily (Palmer), 20. 

George Peter, 20. 
Hollingsworth, Esther, 87. 

George Henry, 87. 

Gertrude Elma, 87. 

Marguerite, 87. 

Ruth Irene, 87. 

Samuel Huston, 87. 
Horn, Emma May. 37. 
Home. Catharine (Murphev). 

81. 
Hoyt, Mary Virginia Wisler 

(Tomkinson), 42. 
Hugue. George, 82. 

Marie, 82. 

Mathias. 82. 

Richard, 82. 
Hunter, Catharine Maria, 36, 

41. 52. 
Charles Francis, 36, 38. 
Grace Sally (James), 36, 

52- 53. 55- ' 
Helen 36, 40. 
Helen Isabelle, 37. 
Helen Pauline, 36, 37. 
Joseph Tomkinson, 36, 38, 

40, 52. 
Julia Beebe (Brace), 36, 

37- 55- 
Martha Jane Scott, 36, 41, 

52. 
Marv Alice (Blair), 36, 37, 

53, 55, 56. 



Hunter, Mary Lushea [or Lus- 
tria] (Clarke), 36, 41, 52. 
Mary Margaret, 37. 
Maud Cornelia, 36, 37. 
Ralph Perry, 36, 38, 55. 
Ray Haldane, 37. 
Sarah Davis (Sweet), 36, 

40, 52, 55- 
Theodore Clarke, 36, 37, 

53, 55- 
Walter H., 36. 
Walter Sawyer, 36, 37. 

I. 

Ireland, Mary Harris (Prickett), 
89. 

J. 
James, Frederick Harcourt, 36, 

53- 
Grace Maria (Welch), 36, 

53- 
Joseph Frederick, 36. 

Mary .Alice (Bush), 36, 53, 

55- 

Maud Docia, 36, 37. 

Robert Pierson, 36, 37. 
Jaiiderell, William, 19. 
Jophson, Sir John, 39. 
Jepson. F.lizabeth, 97. 

Martha, 97. 

Mary Ann, 97. 

Richard, 78, 97. 

Sarah, 97. 

K. 
Kirkpatrick, Alexander, ill. 
Andrew, iii. 
Annie (Tomkinson), 112. 
Elizabeth (Tomkinson), 
III. 

L. 
Landis, Abraham, 94. 
Isaac, 94. 
Philip Tees, 94, 97. 
Sarah Ann, 94, 97. 
Thomas, 94, 103. 
Thomas Isaac, 94, 103. 



125 



Larkin, Agnes-Mary (Tolle- 
mache), i8. 

Metcalfe, i8. 
Lawrence, Edwina May, 90. 

Fenimore Cooper, 90. 

John Diller, 90. 

Martin Luther, 89, 90. 

Samuel Wetson, 89. 
Lees, Ralph, 69. 
Le Fevre, Isaac, 86. 

Joseph Henry, 86. 
Leigh, Ada, 64. 

Oliver, 64. 

Thomas, 64. 
Leinaar, Margaret (Wheeler), 

47- 
Lindsay, Hugh, 95, 96. 

Mary (Coates-Sanford), 

96. 
Llewellyn, Rebecca (Morrell), 

85. 
Longbottom, Abigail, 79, 80. 
Abigail (Taylor), 79, 80. 
Agnes, 82. 
Alice Elizabeth, 81. 
Ann, 79, 80. 

Charlotte (Hugue), 79, 82, 
Edwin, 80. 
Elizabeth, 82. 
EHzabeth (Elliott), 80, 

loi, 103. 
George, 79, 81, loi, 104. 
George Washington Mays, 

81. 
Lewis, 79, loi. 
Mary, 82. 
Richard, 79, 81, 82, 100, 

lOI. 

Samuel, 79, 81, 82, loi, 

104. 
Sarah, 79, 82. 
Thomas, 79, 80, 100, loi, 

103. 
Wilhelmina [Willie] May, 

80. 
Loomis, Floyd Herbert, 48. 
James Herbert, 48. 



Lord Alvanley, 20. 

of Bostock, Osmerus, 23. 

Combermere, 17. 

Lovel, Francis, 39. 
Lovel, Francis, 39. 

Frideswide, 39. 
Low, Catharine (Thackwell), 20. 

Sir H., 20. 
Lowrie, Celenia (Tomkinsonj 47. 
Lyons.Edith Elizabeth (Brown), 

50, 53. 56. 
Edny Elizabeth, 50. 
Grace Ethel, 50, 52. 
William, 50. 

Mc. 

McGray, Margaret (Morrell), 

83. 
McNaughton, John, 40. 

M. 

iMacKeigen, Esther Ann 

(Davis), 83. 
Malkin, Sarah Jane (Tomkin- 
son), 69. 
William, 69. 
Mallette, Lewis, 41. 
Marble, Carrie Elizabeth (Tom- 
kinson), 49. 

Marsden, , (Tomkin- 

son), 17. 
Martin, Martha (Tomkinson), 

61. 
Mays, Ann Maria (Longbot- 
tom), 81. 
Henry, 81. 
Mestayer, Lewis, 95. 
Mitchel, Maggie, 95. 
Mohr, Augustus Henry, 87. 
Molyneux, Joan, 39. 
Sir John, 39. 
Sir Thomas, 39. 
Moore, Elizabeth Cline (Tom- 
kinson), 85. 
Rev. Herbert, 22. 
John, 85. 
Mary Jane (Pilgrim), 93. 



1*6 



Morgan, Frances Ethel (Tom- 
kinson), 21. 

Hugh, 21. 
Morrell, Bernard, 83. 

George Frederick, 83, 85. 

George Norman, 83. 

Jessie Davis, 83. 

Minnie Louise (Tomkin- 
son), 85. 
Mumbauer, Edward, 93. 

Laura (Bullock), 93. 
Mumscll, Annie (Tomkinson), 

49- 
Murphey, Mary Cecelia (Long- 
bottom), 81. 
Lewis, 81. 
Mvers, Hannah (Tomkinson), 
89. 
Israel, 89. 
J. H.. 95- 
Mvett. Martha (Tomkinson), 
35- 

N. 
Nash, Mary Ann (Tomkinson), 

44- 
Naylor, Amanda (Tomkinson), 

93- 

Joseph, 93. 
Nelson, Margaret, iii. 
Nesham, John, 17. 

Julia (Tomkinson), 17. 
Newbold, Fanny Hope (Tom- 
kinson), no. 
Norreys, Alain, 39. 

Sir Edward, 39. 

Elizabeth (Wraj), 39. 

Francis, Earl of Berkshire, 

39- 
Henry, 39, 40. 
Sir Henry, 39, 40. 
John, 39. 
Lettice, 39. 
Lord, 39. 
Nicholas, 39, 40. 
Thomas, 39. 
Sir Thomas, 39. 
William, 39. 



Norris, Charles Lane, 83. 

Nicholas, 40. 

Sally Fowler (Towne), 38, 
40. 

Samuel, 40. 

William Paine, 83. 
North, Dudley, 20. 

Sarah, 20. 
Norton, Lester Fay, 45, 53, 56. 

Thomas Lester, 45. 
Nourse, Francis, 38. 

O. 

Ottie, Sarah Ann (Davis), 82. 
Overslaugh, Peter, 44. 



Paine, Annie Schuyler (Norris), 

83. 
Palmer, Emily trances (Tom- 
kinson), 20. 
Sir George Joseph, 20. 
Pauley, Lydia (Lindsay), 95. 
Parker, Hannah (Redford), 4^ 
Peirce, Ilarrv Curriden Hagney, 

84, 85: 
Howard Spencer, 84, loi. 
Capt. John F., 84. 
Mary Helen (Roberts), 84, 

loi, 104. 
Walter Collins, 84. 
Penrose, Major Edward Raw- 
don, 20. 
Perkins, ^Ia^garet (Hill), 117. 
Philips, Harriet Sophia (Tom- 
kinson), 16, 18. 
Joseph, 109. 
Shakespear, 18. 
Pickup, John, 98. 
Pilgrim, James, 94. 

Sarah Elizabeth (Tomkin- 
son), 92, 93, 94, 96. 
William Godfrey, 93. 
Pollard, Florence Elizabeth, 
109, no. 
Margaret Tomkinson (Tyn- 

dale), 109. 
William Edward, 109. 



127 



Porter, Lydia (Towne), 38. 
Potter, Melintha (Aldrich), 47. 
Potts, Betty (Tomkinson), 61. 
William, Mayor of Maccles- 
field, 61. 
Preston, Elizabeth (Norreys), 

39- 
Prickett, James Ireland, 89. 
Melvena (Tomkinson), 89. 

R. 

Redford, Benjamin, 43. 

Julia Elizabeth (Tomkin- 
son), 43. 
Reynolds, Robert William, in. 
Rhodes, Rebecca (Myers), 89. 
Rich, Sir Henry, 18. 
Richardson, Charles Clark, 86. 

William, 86. 
Roberts, Albert Henry, 84. 

Harry, 85, 102. 

Henry, 84. 

Jennie, 97. 

John, 97. 

Matthew, 97. 

William, 97. 
Rodgers, Wilhelmina (Switzer), 

79- 
Roundel!, Charles Savile, 18. 
Rev. Danson-R., 18. 

S. 

Sandy, Julia Adelaide (Tom- 
kinson), 88. 

Mary Elizabeth (Stuckev), 
89. 

William Gabriel, 88. 
Sanford, Richard, 96. 

Samuel, 95, 96. 
Scott, William, 48. 
Sears, Oscar William, 48. 

Thelma Mary, 48. 
Shakeshaft, Elizabeth (Tom- 
kinson), 77, 78, 79, 97. 

Peter, -j-j. 
Sheldon, Susy (Swancott), 44. 
Slack, Flora Lasalle, 45. 



Slater, Amelia (Tomkinson), 

62. 
Smith, Amy (Towne), 38. 
Elizabeth (Taylor), 80. 
Emma Pearl, 45. 
Sommerville, Elizabeth (Gith- 
ens), 112. 

Spool, 117- 

Springer, Rosetta Vorse (Tom- 
kinson), 44. 
Squires, Julia Pearle, 37. 
Stafford, Hattie (Tomkinson), 

49. 
Stevenson, Elizabeth (Tomkm- 
son), 109. 
Joseph, III. 
Stonehouse, Annie (Tomkinson), 
29. 
Matthew Porrit, 29. 
Stratford, Lady EHzabeth, 18. 
Stratton, Sarah (Hersperger), 

86. 
Stuckey, John Sandy, 88. 
Thomas William, 89. 
Surgisson, Emilie Augusta 
(Tomkinson), 112. 
Dr. James Madison, 112. 
Swancott, David William, 44, 

53- 
Mary Jennie (Overslaugh), 

44, 53- 
Philip Benjamin, 44. 
Philip Stevens, 44. 
Sweeney, Marie Livingston W. 

(Fenner), 88. 
Sweet, Elizabeth (Cooper), 40, 

41, 53> 55- 
Emma Charlotte (Mallette), 

40, 53- 55- 
Jeffrey J., 40. 
Swindles, David, 78, 97. 
Elizabeth, 97. 
Martha, 97. 
Mary Ann, 97. 
Sarah, 97. 



128 



Switzer, Anna Eliza (Longbot- 
tom), 79. 
Lewis, 79. 

T. 

Tarleton, Gen. Sir Banastre, 20. 

Susan (Tomkinson), 20. 

Thomas, 20. 
Taylor, Elizabeth, 81, 100, 101. 

Harry, 81. 

John Henry, 80. 

Seth Henry, 80. 

Wilbert, 81. 

William, 80. 
Tees, Martha May (Landis), 94. 

Philip Brockway, 94. 
Thackwell, Edward Francis, 20. 

Ethel Maria, 20. 

Florence Mary, 20. 
Thackwell, Katherine Harriet 
(Penrose), 20. 

Capt. William de Wilton 
Roche, 20. 
Thomas, Esther Given (Hol- 
lingsworth), 87. 

Mary (Tomkinson), 62. 
Tierney, Sarah (Longbottom), 

79- 
Thomas, 80. 
Timmins, E. Sutton, 22. 
Tinney, Lovina Elizabeth 
'(Sears), 48, 53. 
Lvdia M. (Loomis), 48, 53, 

■56. 
Stephen Soper, 48. 
Tollemache, Rev. Algernon-Ed- 
ward, 18. 
Alice-Georgiana, 18. 
Major Henry-James, 18, 22, 

23- 
Lady Jane, 18. 
John. 1st Lord, 17. 
John-Richard-Delap, 18. 
Julia - Elizabeth - .\nne 

(Roundell), 18. 
Wilbraham-Spencer, 17, 18, 

22. 



Tomkinson, Addie Elvira (Hes- 
cott), 49, 53. 
Alice, 63. 

Alice (Bennie), 61. 
Almyra Elizabeth (Waite), 

46, 52. 
Alzina Chappell, 46. 
Ambrose, 118. 
Amelia, 63. 
Andrew, no. 
Andrew Stevenson, 109, 

III, 112. 
Ann (Lees), 69. 
.^nna Maria, 16, 21. 
Anne, 16, 109. 
.\nne (Tollemache), 17, 18, 

22. 
Anne Isabel, 113. 
.Vnnie, 63. 
.\nnie Allen, 64. 
.\rat>ella (Egerton), 16, 21. 
Arthur, 69, 70. 
Arthur Leslie, 69, 70. 
Barbara Elizabeth, 16, 21. 
Beatrice Adele, 94, ()g, 101, 

103. 

Rev. Benjamin, 35, 44. 5'. 

55- 
Benjamin Redford 43. 

Bertha Mae, 49. 

Carrie Elizabeth, 49, 53. 

Carrie Pearl, 49. 

Catherine, 16, 17, 62. 

Catherine C Cotton), 17. 

Charles, 29, 61, 62, 63, 64, 

69, 71- 
Charles Cookman, 42, 53. 
Charles Harry, 88, 89, loi. 
Charles Hoyt, 42. 
Charles William, 16, 20, 

118. 
2d Lieut. C. W., 118. 
Charlotte (Thackwell), 16, 

20. 
Chester James, 49. 
Christine, 29. 
Clara, 83, loi, loa. 



129 



Tomkinson, Clara Belle (Wheel- 
er), 46, 47, 52. 
Clarence Thomas, 86. 
Dora Sloane, 29. 
E. Blackerhall, 118. 
Edgar, 86. 

Edmund Roy, 45, 56. 
Edmund Scott, 48, 49, 52, 

Edmund Wright, 35, 48, 

49. 51. 56. 
Edward, 16, 17, 119. 

Col. Edward, 18. 

Edward George Henry, 118. 

Lieut. Edward Launcelot, 
118. 

Edward Philip, 16, 21. 

Edwin, 61, 62. 

Edwin Rowsell, 88, go. loi, 
104. 

Edwina May, 90. 

Eliza Howell Berry (Law- 
rence), 88, 89, 104. 

Elizabeth, 17, 63, 64, 78. 

no, 112. 

Elizabeth (Bell). 63. 
Elizabeth (Foster). 69. 70. 
Elizabeth (Longbottom), 

78, 79, 98, 100, 104. 
Elizabeth (Pollard). 109. 
Elizabeth Shakeshaft, 78, 79, 

98, 100, 104. 
Ella Annie, no. 
Ellen Finn, 41, 43. 
Elsie, 49. 
E. M., 117. 
Emily, 63. 
Emily Sj'dney, 113. 
Essie Clara, 49. 
Esther (Lyons), 48, 50. 
Esther Gardinier, 88, 90. 
Eugene, 84, 85. 
Flora Esther, 46. 
Florence Violet, 90. 
Flossie Ann, 49. 
Frances Beatrix, 16, 21. 



Tomkinson, Frances Buchwalter, 

113- 
Francis Martin, 29. 

Francis William, 16, 18. 

Frank, 119. 

Frank Armstrong, 88, 90, 

loi, 103, 104. 

Frank Beldon Test, 89. 

Frank Raymond, 90. 

Frederick, 63. 

Frederick Charles, 119. 

Geoffrey Stewart, 29. 

George Arnold, 117. 

George Cooper, no. 

George Frederick, 69, 71. 

Gerald, 29. 

Gertrude, 29. 

2nd Lieut. H., 118. 

Lieut. H. A., 118. 

Hannah (Adams), 69, 70. 

Hannah May, 89. 

Harriet (Norton), 44, 45, 

52. 
Henry, 16, 17, 21, 61, 109, 

III. 
Lieut. Col. Henry, 118. 
Rev. Henry, 17, 18. 
Henn,' Archdale. 16, 21, 

118. 
Henr\' James, 16. 
HenrA' Richard. 16. 18, 24. 
Henry Tripple, 88, 89, 104. 
Herbert, 29, 63. 
H. J., 119. 
Horace Lessey, 42. 
Horatio. 118. 
Howard Spencer, 88, lOi, 

104. 
Isabella, 3. 15, 50. 
Jabez, 117. 
James, t6, 17, 2T, 23, 24, 29, 

61, 109, III, 119. 
Lieut. Col. James, 20, 24, 

it8. 
Rev. James. 17. 
James Edward, 16, 20. 
Jane (Roberts), 97, 99, lOO. 



130 



Tomkinson, Jeremiah, 67, 69. 

John, 29, 33, 35, 41, 43, so, 
54, 55. 56, 59. 61, 64, 69, 
78, 79, 82, 98, 100, lOI, 
104, 118. 

Rev. John, 17. 

John Britton, 35, 48, 5i- 

Joseph, 35, 41, 44, 46, 47, 
48, 50, 51, 55. 56. 61, 75, 
77, 78, 79. 88, 89, 97, 98, 
99, 100, 103, 107, 109,110, 

III, 112, 118. 

Joseph Samuel, 47. 
Joseph Thomas, 88. 
Joseph WilHam, 43. 
Joyce, 17. 

Joyce Beatrice, 16, 21. 
Julia (Rich), 16, 18. 
Julia Adelaide, 90, loi. 
Julia Ann CStuckey), 88, 

lOI. 

Julia Annie, 43. 

Julia Eva, 47, 48. 

Kate Grace. 86. 

Laura Mearns fMyrna], 

42. 
Leo Benton, 45, 43. 
Lillian Hope, no. 
Louisa, 69. 70. 
Loyde Elmo, 50. 
Lucy Eloydia, 49. 
Mabel Parker, 43. 
Margaret, T18. 
Margfaret Fanny, no. 
Marearet Frances, t6, 21. 
Marsrarct Grosvenor, 29. 
Marsraret Skillman, 112. 
Maria (Hunter), 35, 51, 52, 

Marion. 29. 
Marjorie Smith. 45. 
Martha, 64. 60. 
Martha (Leiarh), 64. 
Martha (Reynolds), in. 
Martha Myett. 41, 43, 44. 
Mary. 48, 61, 117, 118. 



Tomkinson, Mary (Ashley), 61. 
Mary (Deakin), no. 
Mary (Tinney), 48. 
Mary Amanda, 49. 
Mary Ann, 46, 64. 
Mary Ann (Swindles-Jep- 
son), 77, 78, 97, 99, 102. 
Mary Ann Myett, 35, 48, 

51- 
Mary Helen (Gamble), 84, 

loi, 103, 104. 
Mary Helen (Whitely), 62. 
Mary Jane, 93. 
Michael, 29. 

Michael, Mayor of Kidder- 
minster, 29. 
Nancy Nash (Swancott), 44. 
Newton Pow^ers, 93, 99, 

loi, 103, 104. 
Olive Florence (Morrell), 
83, 85, loi, 103. 
Pattie, no. 
Paul Eldridge, 43. 
Pauline Hitner, 90. 
Percv Booth, 21, 69, 70. 
Peter, 61. 

Philip Kirkpatrick, 113. 
Raymond, 29. 
Reuben Nash, 44, 56. 
Richard. 35, 51. 
Robert, 62. 

Robert Edward, 16. 21. 
Robert Hartley, 86. 
Roscoe Spring-er, 45, 52, 53. 
Ruby Vorse, 45. 
Ruth Elma ' (Hollings- 

worth), 84, 87, 103. 
Samuel, 35, 56. 84. 87. 88, 

91, 100, 104, 117. 
Capt. Samuel Davis, 35. 47, 

51. 56. 
Samuel Raymond, 45, 53. 
Sarah, 29. 
Sarah Ann (Landis), TJ, 

78, 94, 97, 98, 100. 
Sarah Jane, 88, 104. 



13' 



Tomkinson, Sarah Maria, 41. 44, 
46. 
Sarah MeHntha, 47, 51, 52, 

56. 
Sibella Eliza (Bryans), 16, 

21. 
Sidney, 69, 70. 
Sophia Anne (Cotton), 16, 

18. 
Spencer William, 84, 87, 

loi, 104. 
Susan (Hoare), 16, 21. 
Susanna (Hersperger), 84, 

86, loi, 103, 104. 
Theodore Jacob, 90. 
Rev. Theophilus Lessey, 41. 
Thomas, 15, 16, 17, 27, 29, 

77, 78- 79. 83, 91. 97, 98, 

100, 102, 103, 104, 117. 
Thomas Hartley, 84, 85, 

103. 104. 
Thomas Spencer, 84. 
Turner Chappell, 46. 
Walter, 119. 
Walter Scott, 49. 
Warren, 49. 
Wilfred, 29. 
Lieut. Wilfred, 118. 
William, 16, 17, 20, 23, 35, 

56, 61, 62. 63, 77, 78, 91, 

93- 97. 98, 100, 104, 117, 

119. 
Lieut. Col. William, 20, 21, 

118. 
Rev. William Davis, 35, 

46, 51, 52, 56. 
Rev. William Eldridge, 41, 

42, 55- 
Dr. William Scott, 46. 47, 

52. 
William Henry, 89, 119. 

"7. 

Towne. Amos, 38. 
Daniel, 38. 
Edmund, 38. 
Jacob, 38. 
John, 38. 



Towne, Joseph, 38. 

Mary (Estey), 38. 

Mary Butler (Tomkinson), 

36, 38, 40- 

Rebecca (Nourse), 38. 

Capt. Samuel Pliny, 38. 

Sarah, 38. 

Susannah, 38. 

Thomas, 38. 

William, 38, 40. 
Trow, Anna (Towne), 38. 
Tyndale, Harold, 109. 

Gen. Hector, no. 

Margaret Hill, no. 

William, 109, no. 

William Harold, no. 
V. 
Van Zant, Marv (Roberts), 

84. 
^''o^ Schroder, Baron William, 
24. 

W. 
Waite. Elihn. 46. 
Wallace. John Miller, 85. 
Wallace. ATartha Stites (Tom- 
kinson), 85. 
Walton. Mary. fi2. 
Wedsrwood. Josiah. 71. 
Welch. Dorothv .\nna. 37. 53. 

William Andrew. 36. 
^^Mler. Tnlia T Avers V 04. 
\\''pttpnha11. Katherine TTom- 
kinsnnV T7. 

Thomas. 17. 
^^^^peler. Bertha Elizabeth. 47. 

Fred Albert. 47. 

Harold Tomkinson. 47. 

Helen Florence. 47. 52. 

Lulu Belle. 47. 

Wilfred. 47. 53. 
AA'^hitelev. Charles, 62. 

Lewis. 62. 
Wiehe. Sophia rTomkinson>, 

82. 
Wilhraham. Sir Ralph, 22. 

Richard Thomas, 22. 



132 

Williams, Barney, 95. Wray, William, 39. 

Lord, 39. Wiinderlich, Jacob D., 90. 

Margaret (Tomkinson), 39. Mary (Tomkinson), 90. 

Willing, Mary (Foulkrod), 91. 
Wood. John, 17. 



Y. 



Mary (Tomkinson), 17. Yates, Rev. William, 24. 



GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS 



OF- 



VARIOUS FAMILIES OF 
TOMKINSON. 

(1620 - 1904) 



By NEWTON POWERS TOMKINSON. 



